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Body armor --- Materials.
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Armored vehicles, Military --- Reactive armor tiles. --- Ceramic materials --- Armor-plate --- Protection. --- Nondestructive testing. --- Materials
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"During the Italian Wars of 1494 to 1559, with innovations in military technology and tactics, armour began to disappear from the battlefield. Yet as field armour was retired, parade and ceremonial armour grew increasingly flamboyant. Displaced from its utilitarian function of defense but retained for symbolic uses, armour evolved in a new direction as a medium of artistic expression. Luxury armour became a chief accessory in the performance of elite male identity, coded with messages regarding the owner's social status, genealogy, and political alliances. Carolyn Springer decodes Renaissance armour as three-dimensional portraits through the case studies of three patrons of luxury armourers, Guidobaldo II della Rovere (1514-75), Charles V Habsburg (1500-58 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1519-56), and Cosimo I de'Medici (1519-74). A fascinating exposition of male self-representation, Armour and Masculinity in the Italian Renaissance explores the significance of armour in early modern Italy as both cultural artefact and symbolic form."--pub. desc.
Armor, Renaissance --- Masculinity --- Armor in art. --- Social aspects --- History. --- Italy --- Civilization --- Intellectual life --- Arms and armor in art --- Masculinity (Psychology) --- Sex (Psychology) --- Men --- Renaissance armor --- Armures de la Renaissance --- Masculinité --- History --- Aspect social --- Histoire --- Italie --- Civilisation --- Vie intellectuelle
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The question of the independence of Byzantine iconography continues to draw attention. Following extensive research on the persistence of Classical motifs in Byzantine art, interest has recently turned to the originality of the latter and its reliability as a historical source. This study examines whether military equipment (armour, weapons, insignia and costume) shown in images of the warrior saints reflects items actually used in the mid-Byzantine Army or merely repeats Classical forms. Such representations are compared with documentary evidence gathered chiefly from Byzantine military manuals. The author demonstrates that military equipment, being a vital branch of material culture subject to constant evolution, provides a good indicator of iconographic innovation in the art of Byzantium.
Christian saints in art --- Armor in art --- Weapons in art --- Art, Byzantine --- Exhibitions --- Christian saints in art - Exhibitions --- Armor in art - Exhibitions --- Weapons in art - Exhibitions --- Art, Byzantine - Exhibitions --- Saints militaires --- Iconographie --- Arms and armor in art
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Dura-Europos (Extinct city). --- Dura-Europos (Extinct city) --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Armor, Ancient --- Weapons, Ancient --- Romans
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