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ARMS AND ARMOUR OF THE RENAISSANCE JOUST

Autore: Tobias Capwell

Codice: 298001011

€ 17,00

Collana di illustratissime guide alle svariate collezioni custodite presso la Royal Armouries di Londra.

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Published to coincide with the 500th anniversary of the greatest tournament of the Tudor age – the Field of Cloth of Gold, which took place in 1520.

The Renaissance is best known as an age of artists – Michelangelo, da Vinci, Titian and Holbein – but it is also the age of the noble patrons who challenged their painters and sculptors to create great art. These patrons were knights, military leaders and jousters. They played a central role in the story of another great Renaissance story, that of the armourer.

Here, Tobias Capwell continues his history of jousting seen through surviving artefacts in the collection of the Royal Armouries. He reveals how the jousts and tournaments of the Renaissance transported knightly combat into a kind of performance art, with demonstrations of aristocratic skill and nerve, of superhuman strength and superlative horsemanship – and of cutting-edge equipment.

Lingua

INGLESE

Illustrazioni

100 foto a colori

Pagine

96

Misure

17 x 23

ISBN
9780948092992