NEW YORK — Out of nowhere, the clang of armor and the beat of hip-hop music boomed through a gallery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Tourists who had been peering at filigreed shields and ...
Some may know that armored knights used upturned codpieces to attract woman at parties, but a new exhibition of medieval clothing shows that the fashion was also adopted by bold, gender-fluid ...
*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. “Helmet in the form of a Sea Conch Shell,” 1618, iron with traces of lacquer and textiles Armor can be fearsome. But as shown in ...
WORCESTER - Visitors to the Worcester Art Museum can go on a ride through history from all around the world, with a pretty significant stop in medieval Europe. From suits of armor to medieval weapons ...
WORCESTER — The Worcester Art Museum has been awarded a $400,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support a permanent gallery installation dedicated to the John Woodman Higgins ...
TRAVERSE CITY - In the movies, knights in armor are lifted onto their horses by a winch. In real life, armor was so flexible that the chivalrous soldiers could dance, joust, play sports, run and pick ...
Chances are quickly dwindling for people to see items on exhibit at the Frazier History Museum that on loan from the vast collection of the British Royal Armouries. Jan. 19 will be the last day the ...
The excavation, launched in July under the initiative of Rustavi City Hall, focuses on exploring the remains of a medieval palace dating back to the 9th-12th centuries within the fortress complex, ...
WORCESTER — Higgins Armory Museum, one of Worcester's unique places, housing the largest collection of armor outside of Europe, closed its doors on Tuesday for the final time. Cars were parked around ...
Head to the Frist Art Museum’s upper-level galleries, and you’ll come face-to-face with a 500-year-old knight in shining armor. OK, so it’s not an actual knight. The armor, however, is the real deal.