Arms and Armor: Notable Acquisitions 1991-2002 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

by Stuart W. Pyhrr, Donald J. LaRocca, and Morihiro Ogawa

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This book celebrates more than a decade of collecting by the Metropolitan Museum's Department of Arms and Armor since the reinstallation of its permanent galleries in 1991. The new acquisitions complement and build upon the Museum's encyclopedic collection, which totals more than 14,000 objects from Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and North America. Fifty-eight of the most important recent acquisitions are featured in this volume, including the richly decorated armor and weapons of two French kings, the king of Sweden, and a future king of England, several members of the ruling Medici family of Florence, a hero of the...Read more
  • ISBN10 0300098766
  • ISBN13 9780300098761
  • Publish Date 11 January 2003
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 6 December 2016
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Yale University Press
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 64
  • Language English