Thursday, November 3, 2011

Metropolitan Museum

Armor


This armor was in Renaissance Europe, and this material looked like weight and inflexible, and this armor was beautifully decorated. Not only the armors function was to protect to peoples body, but also it made to think the beauty in Renaissance period. In Renaissance, this period had developed arts and reproduce arts, so people tried to make their armor more embellished. The Armor usually displayed in tournaments, parades, and triumphal entries, so more strong function was for ornamental purpose. More interesting part was back side. The back side was more functional because they made hip part using fabrics, and that means it would be more comfortable when solider rode a horse. However, back side was also graceful.