The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York

by Eric Slyter

I had the opportunity to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City in December of 1998. The Met is enormously huge, but truthfully, the only part that held my interest for any length of time was the armour gallery :-) I spent the better part of an entire day taking pictures and notes, and that wasn't enough time! Since my camera left a lot to be desired, the pics below are a selection of the ones that turned out best. There was a lot of great stuff that I didn't have enough film to take pics of, either. I only got a few pics of the Islamic armour display, and no pics of their world class display of Japanese armour (sorry, it just isn't interesting to me). The armour collection at The Met has to be seen in person to be believed.

h1
German, 1540-50 		m2
Maximillian armours
2nd Quarter, 16th C. 		m3
Closeup of center suit

m4
German, 1580-90 		m5
German, 1580
German, 1565
Clockwise from left:
Close helm, 1552
Tilt plate, 1551
Close helm, 1573
Close helm, late 16th C. 		m6
Sir James Scudamore
Greenwich, 1585


m7
George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland
Greenwich 		m8
Italian, 1580 		m9
Italian, 1570
with exchange pieces

m10
Left to right:
Italian, 1575
Milanese, 1560-75
German, 1535-1554
German, 1548 		m11 m12


m13
Italian
Top row:
1490, 1495, 1515,
1440, 1475
Bottom row:
1515, 1475-1500,
1475, 1500, 1510,
1515 		m14
Indian or Iranian
Mughal period, 1817 		m15
Horse armour
Syrian, Turkish 1450-1550

m16
Iranian, 15th C.		 m17



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