Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Important Late Medieval Armor at the Hofburg Vienna

Matchlock · 19th February 2009, 01:58 PM

Hi Fernando,

I have been to the Hofburg Armory in Vienna several times but was of course mostly interested in their earliest firearms. I was given the singular chance to take special guns out of their cases and photograph them in broad daylighgt on a balcony some 80 meters above the streets of Vienna - imagine!

In a while I will post some photos I took of armor and other interesting things which only they seem to have. Remember this is the Imperial Habsburg armory.

BTW, that "girl's armor was actually made for a dude; this specialty of the 1510's to the 1540's is called costume armor and was widely en vogue not only at court "parties". Henry VIII also had some (see attachments): fashionable costume elements imitated in iron. The "horned helmet" illustrated below is the emblem of the Royal Armouries Leeds.
Sort of early Renaissance knightly cross dressing ...

Michael

19th February 2009, 01:58 PM	#4
Matchlock (deceased) Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Bavaria, Germany - the center of 15th and 16th century gunmaking Posts: 4,310	Costume Armor Hi Fernando, I have been to the Hofburg Armory in Vienna several times but was of course mostly interested in their earliest firearms. I was given the singular chance to take special guns out of their cases and photograph them in broad daylighgt on a balcony some 80 meters above the streets of Vienna - imagine! In a while I will post some photos I took of armor and other interesting things which only they seem to have. Remember this is the Imperial Habsburg armory. BTW, that "girl's armor was actually made for a dude; this specialty of the 1510's to the 1540's is called costume armor and was widely en vogue not only at court "parties". Henry VIII also had some (see attachments): fashionable costume elements imitated in iron. The "horned helmet" illustrated below is the emblem of the Royal Armouries Leeds. Sort of early Renaissance knightly cross dressing ... Michael Attached Images