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The Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 31 (1996)
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART JOURNAL | VOLUME 31

"The Bashford Dean Memorial Tablet by Daniel Chester French"

LaRocca, Donald J.
1996
7 pages
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Donald La Rocca

Donald J. La Rocca joined the department in 1988, following six years at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He has curated the international loan exhibition Warriors of the Himalayas: Rediscovering the Arms and Armor of Tibet (2006), as well as several in-house exhibitions, including The Gods of War: Sacred Imagery and the Decoration of Arms and Armor (1996), The Academy of the Sword: Illustrated Fencing Books 1500­–1800 (1998), Bashford Dean and the Creation of the Arms and Armor Department (2012), and Arms and Armor: Notable Acquisitions 2003–2014 (2014). He is the author of more than thirty-five print essays on arms and armor.

Armor Garniture, Probably of King Henry VIII of England (reigned 1509–47), Hans Holbein the Younger  German, Steel, gold, leather, copper alloys, British, Greenwich
Hans Holbein the Younger
Royal Workshops at Greenwich
dated 1527
Helmet (Sallet), Steel, iron, gold, silver, cloisonné enamel, leather, textile, Spanish, possibly Granada
Spanish, possibly Granada
late 15th–early 16th century
Armet, Missaglia workshop  Italian, Steel, Italian, Milan
Missaglia workshop
ca. 1475