#shaffron

[armthearmour]

A fabulously chased, etched, and gilt Shaffron for Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, attributed to Konrad Seusenhofer, Innsbruck, Austria, 1514 housed at the Kunshistorischesmuseum, Vienna.

#armor #horse armor #barding #shaffron #europe #european #austria #austrian #innsbruck #hre #holy roman empire #renaissance #khm #art #history

[artifacts-archive]

Shaffron

Milan, Italy, 1575 CE

Chivalry—with its connotation of the knightly ideal—was intimately connected with the horse (cheval in French). A knight took care to protect his mount, on which he was dependent for the mobility and speed required in both attack and retreat. In Roman times, some heavy cavalry used armor made of iron or bronze scales to protect their horses. From the twelth century on, knights covered their steeds in bands of iron mail (a network of interlocking rings). By the fifteenth century, full-plate armors were not uncommon. This shaffron, or headpiece, is etched in gilt bands with decoration on a finely dotted ground. Riveted between the eyes is an elongated conical spike, perhaps inspired by the horn of the mythical unicorn. A manifestation of great power and wealth, the shaffron has been valued for centuries as an object of beauty, not just as a tool of warfare and sport.

#artifact #Italy #Milan #shaffron #armor

[ritasv]

“A moment of calm before the jousting’ courtesy of ARW Photography

#shaffron #champron #horse #medieval #reenactment #ARW Photography

[thissidekhushi]

Buy 100% original Kashmiri Kesar, saffron at best price in India. We offer different varieties of best quality Kashmiri saffron (Kesar) at a reasonable price!

#Kaftan #Shilajit #Shaffron

[hyperfixatinglove]

Ushio calling me Roe casually and I freeze with huge smile on my face and screaming across the room "I LOVE YOU"

#musings #i still havent decided between roe shaffron or haze as agender / nb name as i call it

[peashooter85]

Horse's shaffron, German, third quarter of the 16th century

from The Royal Military Museum, Brussels

#history #antiques #armor #armour

[memories-of-ancients]

Shaffron (horse head armor) crafted in Augsburg, Germany, circa 1560

from The Worcester Art Museum

#history #antiquities #art #armor #armour

[metmuseum]

Half-Shaffron (Horse's Head Defense). ca. 1570–80. Credit line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/27179

#aesthetic #art #abstract art #art museum #art history #The Metropolitan Museum of Art #museum #museum photography #museum aesthetic #dark academia

[drownmeinbeauty]

THERE'S JUST ONE THING

When a friend invited me to the Neue Galerie on Sunday morning I understood the exhibit, The Ronald S. Lauder Collection, as penance for the kaffee and strudel we would enjoy at Cafe Sabarsky beforehand. But the show was sweeter than the snack. While most private collections feel like a cultural vanity or tax write-off, or both (see The Broad), this one gives great pleasure. Aside from the modern paintings at the Hermitage, I haven't seen another collection where each object shines so brilliantly while resting comfortably within the whole.

The exhibit includes modern German and Viennese paintings and furnishings, Medieval art, armor, movie memorabilia, and a kunstkammer with ancient and modern sculpture and objects. The displays mimic those in Lauder's home, with pieces spaced judiciously on walls and shelves. There are no interactive or immersive elements, which is a relief. The wall texts are simple if a bit shaky on context, never explaining directly that many modern works here were seized by the Nazis from Jewish owners and reclaimed by heirs decades later after exhaustive legal battle. And there's so many great pieces that some, including a series of sketches by Egon Schiele, are hung too high to see properly.

Lauder's patronage is the main story. He has chosen objects well and with love. The armor gallery at The Met always feels like an inconvenience, something to run through to get to the American Wing, but the one here floored me. There are suits of chain mail and metal plate, swords, cross bows, and horse armor, all buffed and shimmering dreamily. For the first time I understood the exquisite piecing and ergonomics of armor, imagining the pains taken to don and doff them. The shaffrons (metal plates horses wear on their faces) are as complexly and subtly contoured as an alien landscape.

The heart of the show is the Green Room, a recreation of the living room where Lauder hangs his German Expressionism works. Each one is a stunner. There are major paintings by Max Beckmann, Otto Dix and Erich Heckel. But it's the small pieces hung in the gaps that seduce. There's a Kurt Schwitters collage, no larger than a paperback, built from painted cardboard scraps, that opens like a new universe as one peers inside. In the kunstkammer there are two vitrines by Carols Scarpa from the mid-50's with spindly metal legs and small metal cleats that seems held together, and held up, by magic. A coffin-sized hardwood mid-century table, fabricated more crudely, gives the space a center of gravity. I imagine it's where Lauder sits and works at home, surrounded by all of his extraordinary things.

View of the ‘Green Room’ at ‘The Ronald S. Lauder Collection’ on view at Neue Galerie New York. (Hulya Kolabas/Courtesy of Neue Galerie New York)

#ART #GALLERY #EXHIBITION #COLLECTION #SCULPTURE #PAINTING #ARMOR

[ninesdb]

WIP Game

Rules: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have WIPs

Cause @jbarneswilson put me up to this. Most of these things aren't going to be continued, they're stranded on a beach far far away, lost to time. But I will share them, cause I'm nice like that. If anyone gets new ideas from this, please feel free to use it!

Writing;

SarahBucky College!AU

The Last of Us 2, but a certain character doesn't die...

Other art:

Bucky and daughter

SamBucky with a cat

Sam Wilson in his smiling tiger suit

Wakandan Horse Shaffron

Bonus: drawings by me and my friend from high school that we drew during classes lol

I'm blanking on who to tag, that i haven't seen tagged already. So whoever feels like it, feel free to act as if i've tagged you

#tag game

[snksdsct]

Shaffron and Crinet (Horse's Head and Neck Defenses) ca. 1480–95, with 19th century restorations

[armthearmour]

An astonishingly repoussed Shaffron,

Length: 25.2 in/64 cm

Width: 10.75 in/27.3 cm

Depth: 6 in/15.2 cm

Weight: 5.6 lbs/2540 g

Italy, ca. 1540-1550, housed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

#armor #armour #barding #shaffron #europe #european #italy #italian #renaissance #phillymuseumofart #art #history

[artifacts-archive]

Demi Shaffron

Italian, Milan, 1590/1600

#artifact #Italy #shaffron #armor

[thatshowthingstarted]

Half-Shaffron for an Armor of King Philip IV of Spain or his Brother Don Carlos.

Attributed to Pierre du Coudroy (1560–ca. 1626) and François Le Gras (active ca. 1600–1640), armorers. 

Flemish, Brussels, 1624–26. 

Courtesy of Metropolitan Museum of Art.

#art #design #flemish #Antique #shaffron #armor #king philip IV #spain #don carlos #pierre de coudroy #francois le gras #armorer #brussels #1624 #1626 #metropolitan museum of art #collectors #unique #history #style

[twirld]

Shaffron (Horse's Head Defense), ca.1560–70 

#armor #16th century #shaffron #italian #art

[hyperfixatinglove]

Bouncing between changing name to Roe or Shaffron

Also I made pronouns page :3c

#musings