标题: European and Japanese Suits of Armor [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 10-8-2012 13:19 标题: European and Japanese Suits of Armor Charles McGrath, Dressed to Kill, From Head to Toe. New York Times, Oct 5, 2012. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/0 ... -armor-curator.html
(“Bashford Dean and the Creation of the Arms and Armor Department” runs through Sept. 29, 2013, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Note:
(1) The exhibition review observed, "William Randolph Hearst, one of the most enthusiastic collectors, had an entire armory in his Riverside Drive penthouse: enough pikes, halberds, helms, hauberks, greaves, gauntlets, cuisses and cuirasses to outfit a crusade."
(a) halberd http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halberd
(b) hauberk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauberk
Compare
(i) The cuirass seems to describe Greek and Roman piece, while "full plate armour developed in Europe during the Late Middle Ages, especially in the context of the Hundred Years' War [1337-1453]."
plate armour http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_armour
(ii) breastplate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breastplate
(In medieval weaponry, the breastplate is the front portion of 'plate armour' covering the torso)
(2) The review mentioned "the four mounted knights cantering down the middle of the Bloomberg Court."
canter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canter
("a controlled, three-beat gait performed by a horse. It is a natural gait possessed by all horses, faster than most horses' trot but slower than the gallop")
(3)
(a) The review talked about "the two side-by-side, before-and-after suits of armor made for Henry VIII, one when he was young and slender and another when he was fat and gouty."
(b) An armor set in the online slide show belonged to Henry VIII around 1544.
(c) Henry VIII of England (1491-1547; reign 1509-1547)
(4) Henry II of France http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_II_of_France
(1519-1559; reign 1547-1559)
(5) The review said of Mr dean: "He was also the first curator of fish at the Museum of Natural History (where his specialties included placoderms, or armored fish)."
(a) American Museum of Natural History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Museum_of_Natural_History
(at Manhattan)
(b) For placoderms, see placodermi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placodermi
(from the Greek for plate and for skin, literally "plate-skinned")
(8) For Duc de Dino (there is a page in French Wikipedia under this title, which I can not read), see
Princess Dorothea of Courland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Dorothea_of_Courland
(Duchess of Dino; 1793-1862; born near Berlin [as Baltic German], the fourth and last daughter of Duchess Dorothea of Courland; her uncle [was] Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord[, a French diplomat]; her husband was Talleyrand's nephew; In 1817 Talleyrand "was also granted the duchy of Dino (a 1.5 km by 1.2 km Calabrian island) by the king of Sicily in recognition of his services at Vienna. The duchy of Dino was immediately handed down to his nephew and his wife and so Dorothea also became duchess of Dino")
The French nouns for duke and duchess are "duc" and "duchesse," respectively.
(9) The panoply in "knightly panoply"
(10) The review stated that "even an ordinary foot soldier’s helmet in the Dean exhibition is decorated with fluting and metal studs."
(13) The review describes a helmet this way: "This is especially true in the case of the 16th-century steel-and-gold helmet made by Filippo Negroli, probably the greatest of his generation of armorers, in which a mermaid arches backward over the top holding a gorgon above her head and over the visor while her tail, in the back, turns into acanthus branches with little putti peeking out."
(a) Filippo Negroli http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filippo_Negroli
(ca 1510-1579; an armourer from Milan)
(b) gorgon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon
(d) acanthus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acanthus
(referring to Acanthus plant; section 1 Architecture)
(e) putto http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putto
(plural putti)
(14) Benvenuto Cellini http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benvenuto_Cellini
(1500-1571)
(15) The review at last said, "Some of them [suits of armor] left very little to the imagination. The Ferdinand armor, the set with the Madonna in front, also includes a hard-to-miss banana-shaped codpiece.
(a) codpiece http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codpiece
(b) codpiece (n; Middle English codpese, from cod bag, scrotum (from Old English codd) + pese piece; First Known Use: 15th century):
"a flap or bag concealing an opening in the front of men's breeches especially in the 15th and 16th centuries" http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/codpiece
(16) A photo caption referred to
Gothic plate armour http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_plate_armour
(a type of plate armour of steel made in the regions of Germany and the Holy Roman Empire during the late Middle Ages (15th century); provided full-body protection)