A01=Stefan Krause
A15=Sabine Haag
A32=Andreas Zajic
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
armor
arms
augsburg
Author_Stefan Krause
automatic-update
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=ACND
Category=AGA
Category=HBW
Category=JWT
Category=JWTU
Category=NHW
charles v
clothing
COP=United States
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
design
drapery
dublet
elaborate
eq_art-fashion-photography
eq_bestseller
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
exhbition catalogue
fabric
flair
german
german renaissance
kolman helmschmid
landesknecht
Language_English
medieval
PA=Available
Price_€20 to €50
PS=Active
sleeves
softlaunch
spain
steel
wilhelm von rogendorf
Product details
- ISBN 9780300230864
- Weight: 998g
- Dimensions: 241 x 273mm
- Publication Date: 05 Sep 2017
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
A gloriously illustrated volume that looks at the remarkable armor of a key Habsburg commander and its relationship to contemporary Renaissance fashion
This sumptuously illustrated book celebrates a curious masterpiece of German Renaissance art--the Landsknecht armor of Wilhelm von Rogendorf (1523). Recently conserved to its original glory, this magnificent suit of armor, made for a trusted courtier, diplomat, and commander of infantry units for the Habsburgs, deceives the eye: the steel sleeves drape in graceful folds, with cuts in the surface, suggesting the armor is made from cloth rather than metal. The author of this fascinating volume explores the question: why does the armor look this way?
Stefan Krause delves back five centuries to the political, social, and cultural context in which von Rogendorf lived. Among other key venues in the Holy Roman Empire, this story takes the reader to the court of Emperor Charles V in Spain and to Augsburg, the leading center of armor making, where Rogendorf was introduced to the court armorer of Charles V, Kolman Helmschmid (1471-1532). Helmschmid was famous for his inventive and masterfully sculptured works, and this book elaborates on his unique contributions to the history of armor, and how and why von Rogendorf's suit was informed by contemporary fashion.
Distributed for the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
This sumptuously illustrated book celebrates a curious masterpiece of German Renaissance art--the Landsknecht armor of Wilhelm von Rogendorf (1523). Recently conserved to its original glory, this magnificent suit of armor, made for a trusted courtier, diplomat, and commander of infantry units for the Habsburgs, deceives the eye: the steel sleeves drape in graceful folds, with cuts in the surface, suggesting the armor is made from cloth rather than metal. The author of this fascinating volume explores the question: why does the armor look this way?
Stefan Krause delves back five centuries to the political, social, and cultural context in which von Rogendorf lived. Among other key venues in the Holy Roman Empire, this story takes the reader to the court of Emperor Charles V in Spain and to Augsburg, the leading center of armor making, where Rogendorf was introduced to the court armorer of Charles V, Kolman Helmschmid (1471-1532). Helmschmid was famous for his inventive and masterfully sculptured works, and this book elaborates on his unique contributions to the history of armor, and how and why von Rogendorf's suit was informed by contemporary fashion.
Distributed for the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
Stefan Krause is curator of the Imperial Armoury at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna.
