Portions of a Field Armor for Man and Horse, about 1525
Kolman Helmshmid. Collection of Daniel and Deborah Manoogian Family.
What does armor tell us about who owned, wore, and created these steel carapaces of the past?
Plenty, in fact. Like our own clothing, armor reveals intimate details about the body, activities, and tastes of its wearer. Join curator Jonathan Tavares as he examines Renaissance armor from our galleries, unraveling their mysteries from the material evidence they contain.
About the Speaker
Jonathan Tavares is a curator of the Applied Arts of Europe at the Art Institute of Chicago. He is an early modern decorative arts, arms, and armor scholar with a Ph.D from the Bard Graduate Center. Tavares was responsible for curating the Arms and Armor galleries, part of the Deering Family Galleries of Medieval and Renaissance Art that opened in 2017. His purview includes medieval to Baroque applied arts, and he has published numerous articles on 16th-century arms and armor as well as their manufacture and connection to print culture.
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