As beautiful and stunning as it is, it was indeed meant for battle. Tavares: The crown jewel of our collection has to be this Greenwich armor that was created for a nobleman in the court of Elizabeth I. The ceremonial plates of a child weigh only 1 pound. The average weight of a suit of armor is 60 pounds. A weapons room features baroque gun cabinets that invite further exploration. Ponce: Alongside all of the armor – are the arms. In the first room you enter into something like a guard chamber, where these bodyguards stand sentinel, as if you’re entering like an ante-chamber to an audience hall, then you enter into a large massive armor court that is like an audience hall, and you’re immediately confronted with pieces that are active in the center, they come alive. Arms and armor for use in war of course, as protection and defense in war, then there’s also for parade, for display, and lastly it’s as sports equipment for tournaments, for the joust. Jonathan Tavares, curator, arms and armor: We wanted to evoke a few different major themes for arms and armor there are three major themes in fact. We felt we needed to highlight the individual works by creating something of an architectural context, something of atmosphere, and also to do a sort of a pacing through the space that would make this transition from the religious to the secular to the more warlike. Martha Wolff, curator, European painting and sculpture: This was an effort to show works of art from about 1150 to 1600 in context, to suggest their original use and environments, and to show some wonderful major works in their settings, to move from religious art into a kind of a domestic sphere, more intimate personal sphere, and then finally to culminate in our wonderful arms and armor collection.
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