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Jousting Armor
unknown, Saxonylast third of the sixteenth century
Renaissance and Reformation. German Art in the Age of Dürer and Cranach
This suit of armor belongs to a large group of polished or blackened jousting armors commissioned by Electors Augustus and Christian I of Saxony from the armorers Wolf and Peter von Speyer the Younger as well as Wolf Peppighorn. Johann Friedrich von Ponikau, who held the position of Groom of the Chamber under Augustus the Strong, probably wore this armor in a tournament on the occasion of the marriage of Augustus’s son in 1719.
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Details
- Title: Jousting Armor
- Creator: unknown, Saxony
- Date Created: last third of the sixteenth century
- Physical Dimensions: 34.86 kg
- Technique and Material: Iron, forged, hammered, polished, and partially engraved
- Provenance: First mentioned in the complete inventory of the Rüstkammer in 1606
- Museum: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Rüstkammer
- Inv.-No.: M 33
- ISIL-No.: DE-MUS-845714
- External Link: http://www.skd.museum/de/museen-institutionen/residenzschloss/ruestkammer/
- Copyright: Photo © Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Rüstkammer/ Jürgen Karpinski; Text © Renaissance and Reformation: German Art in the Age of Dürer and Cranach, A Cooperation of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, and the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen München, Catalogue of the Exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Nov 20, 2016 – March 26, 2017, Munich: Prestel, 2016; cat. no. 50 / Holger Schuckelt
- Catalogue: https://prestelpublishing.randomhouse.de/book/Renaissance-and-Reformation/Stephanie-Buck/Prestel-com/e504919.rhd
- Artist Dates: unknown
- Artist Biography: unknown
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