The Art Institute of Chicago unveils new galleries of medieval and Renaissance art. This week, the Art Institute of Chicago unveiled new galleries of medieval and Renaissance art – including the ...

But there is another reason why medieval women’s armor is such a tricky thing to predict: according to the folks behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Arms and Armory collection, when it ...

Blacksmiths with Art of Steel, which has produced medieval armor for sport since 2009, are now using their materials to create caltrops — sharp, six-inch spikes that date back to ancient wars.

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 ...

Nedilska also says she's often inspired by the surreal quality of medieval art, especially the illustrations in manuscripts. The pictures feel familiar to her, but also deeply strange ...

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.

The audience howled. This is the world of modern medieval battle, a human demolition derby where men and women wearing up to 100 pounds of armor slash and hammer one another with blunted steel ...

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 ...

But even if knights' encounters with firearms were uncommon, medieval armor may have offered some protection against a bullet. "The Late Medieval-Early Modern Era, from around 1380 to about 1600 ...