One example: The foot portion of medieval armor (the sabaton) “imitated the pointed shape of a fifteenth-century shoe,” the catalog states. Armor especially rose to the level of art when ...

But, according to art historian Matthias Goll, much of this vision is a myth. “It’s an old fairy tale that medieval armor was incredibly heavy,” he says. It was, in fact, relatively light ...

The glittering armor worn by medieval European knights was originally ... According to an essay in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, plate armor was first used in Europe in the 13th century and ...

Knights were the legendary "superheroes" of their time, and that reputation was strengthened if not stretched by popular romance literature in the Medieval ... art and had an eye for artistic armor.

Unknown German, Three Horsemen in Armor from the Time of the Emperor Sigismund (ca. 1560-70). Courtesy of the Getty Museum. As current circumstances draw comparisons to medieval times, the Getty ...