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 ...

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 ...

you see European knights in shining armor from the 1500s,” said Jeffrey Forgeng, Higgins curator of arms and medieval art. “We want to tell a global story. There’s a kind of universality to ...