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Sharing artworks from the AIC's Arms, Armor, Medieval, and Renaissance department. Automated thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social

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AIC: Arms, Armor, Medieval, and Renaissance (Bot) @aicarms.bsky.social · 22m

Target Crossbow https://www.artic.edu/artworks/116841/

George F. Harding Collection

AIC: Arms, Armor, Medieval, and Renaissance (Bot) @aicarms.bsky.social · 3h

Funerary Close Helmet https://www.artic.edu/artworks/111791/

George F. Harding Collection

AIC: Arms, Armor, Medieval, and Renaissance (Bot) @aicarms.bsky.social · 5h

Javelin https://www.artic.edu/artworks/116678/

George F. Harding Collection

AIC: Arms, Armor, Medieval, and Renaissance (Bot) @aicarms.bsky.social · 8h

Storage Jar https://www.artic.edu/artworks/51592/

Kate S. Buckingham Endowment

AIC: Arms, Armor, Medieval, and Renaissance (Bot) @aicarms.bsky.social · 21h

Lames (eight) of a Left Gauntlet https://www.artic.edu/artworks/116445/

George F. Harding Collection

AIC: Arms, Armor, Medieval, and Renaissance (Bot) @aicarms.bsky.social · 1d

Flintlock Belt Pistol https://www.artic.edu/artworks/116925/

George F. Harding Collection

AIC: Arms, Armor, Medieval, and Renaissance (Bot) @aicarms.bsky.social · 1d

Bevor with two Gorget Plates https://www.artic.edu/artworks/112126/

George F. Harding Collection

AIC: Arms, Armor, Medieval, and Renaissance (Bot) @aicarms.bsky.social · 1d

Backplate with Fauld https://www.artic.edu/artworks/116335/

George F. Harding Collection

AIC: Arms, Armor, Medieval, and Renaissance (Bot) @aicarms.bsky.social · 1d

Breastplate https://www.artic.edu/artworks/112138/

George F. Harding Collection

AIC: Arms, Armor, Medieval, and Renaissance (Bot) @aicarms.bsky.social · 1d

Two-Handed Sword https://www.artic.edu/artworks/106388/

George F. Harding Collection

AIC: Arms, Armor, Medieval, and Renaissance (Bot) @aicarms.bsky.social · 1d

Backplate https://www.artic.edu/artworks/155660/

George F. Harding Collection

AIC: Arms, Armor, Medieval, and Renaissance (Bot) @aicarms.bsky.social · 2d

Presentation Flintlock Fowling Piece in the Eastern Fashhion https://www.artic.edu/artworks/106445/

George F. Harding Collection

AIC: Arms, Armor, Medieval, and Renaissance (Bot) @aicarms.bsky.social · 2d

Gauntlet for the Left Hand https://www.artic.edu/artworks/116446/

Intended purely for spectacle, parade armor represented the pinnacle of the armorer’s art. This fragmentary gauntlet for the right hand was part of such a harness. The workshop of Lucio Piccinino produced several similar commissions for various dukes and princes of the Habsburg court. The work of several craftsmen, this gauntlet merges the arts of armoring and goldsmithing. Here the technique of gold-and-silver overlay is combined with embossing—pushing the thin steel from both inside and out. With its riot of classical ornament, including grotesque figures, fruit garlands, and trophies of arms, the decoration reflects the prevailing artistic taste, known as Mannerism, at the end of the 16th century.

George F. Harding Collection

AIC: Arms, Armor, Medieval, and Renaissance (Bot) @aicarms.bsky.social · 2d

Powder Charge Case of a Musketeer's Bandolier https://www.artic.edu/artworks/116764/

George F. Harding Collection

AIC: Arms, Armor, Medieval, and Renaissance (Bot) @aicarms.bsky.social · 2d

The Resurrection https://www.artic.edu/artworks/117244/

George F. Harding Collection

AIC: Arms, Armor, Medieval, and Renaissance (Bot) @aicarms.bsky.social · 3d

Model Field Cannon with Carriage https://www.artic.edu/artworks/116186/

George F. Harding Collection

AIC: Arms, Armor, Medieval, and Renaissance (Bot) @aicarms.bsky.social · 3d

Rapier https://www.artic.edu/artworks/116949/

George F. Harding Collection

AIC: Arms, Armor, Medieval, and Renaissance (Bot) @aicarms.bsky.social · 3d

Halberd https://www.artic.edu/artworks/116307/

George F. Harding Collection

AIC: Arms, Armor, Medieval, and Renaissance (Bot) @aicarms.bsky.social · 3d

Three-Quarter Composite Armor for the Infantry https://www.artic.edu/artworks/116290/

George F. Harding Collection

AIC: Arms, Armor, Medieval, and Renaissance (Bot) @aicarms.bsky.social · 3d

Flintlock Fowling Gun https://www.artic.edu/artworks/116699/

George F. Harding Collection

AIC: Arms, Armor, Medieval, and Renaissance (Bot) @aicarms.bsky.social · 4d

Sword https://www.artic.edu/artworks/117150/

George F. Harding Collection

AIC: Arms, Armor, Medieval, and Renaissance (Bot) @aicarms.bsky.social · 4d

Combination Spanner-Primer Flask-Screwdriver with the Coat of Arms of the Haller von Hallerstein and Nüzel von Sunderspuhl Families https://www.artic.edu/artworks/106421/

A wheellock mechanism could not be used without a spanner, or winding key. Often this essential tool was combined with others to make loading a long gun or pistol more convenient. Here, the handle doubles as a powder flask, with a nozzle on top to prime the pan of the lock with fine powder; at the base is a screwdriver to take the gun apart for cleaning.

George F. Harding Collection

AIC: Arms, Armor, Medieval, and Renaissance (Bot) @aicarms.bsky.social · 4d

Sword https://www.artic.edu/artworks/106209/

George F. Harding Collection

AIC: Arms, Armor, Medieval, and Renaissance (Bot) @aicarms.bsky.social · 4d

Curb Bit https://www.artic.edu/artworks/116879/

George F. Harding Collection

AIC: Arms, Armor, Medieval, and Renaissance (Bot) @aicarms.bsky.social · 4d

Narwhal Tusk https://www.artic.edu/artworks/116458/

George F. Harding Collection