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The Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 30 (1995)

THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART JOURNAL | VOLUME 30

"Appendix: Notes on the Restoration of the Behaim Shields"

Faltermeier, Christel, and Rudolf Meyer

1995

8 pages

This title is out of print.

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About the authors

Christel Faltermeier

Rudolf Meyer

Met Art in Publication

Shield for the Field or Tournament (Targe), Wood, leather, linen, gesso, pigments, silver, German — Shield for the Field or Tournament (Targe)
ca. 1450

Shield for the Field or Tournament (Targe), Wood, canvas, leather, gesso, silver, polychromy, iron, German — Shield for the Field or Tournament (Targe)
15th century

Shield (Pavise)

ca. 1475–1500

ca. 1450

Shield for the Field or Tournament (Targe), Wood, leather, linen, gesso, silver, polychromy, iron, German — Shield for the Field or Tournament (Targe)
ca. 1450–1500

Shield for the Field or Tournament (Targe), Wood, leather, silver, gesso, polychromy, iron, German — Shield for the Field or Tournament (Targe)
ca. 1450–1500

Shield, Wood, iron, gesso, polychrome, pigskin, silver leaf, German, Nuremberg — Shield
ca. 1450

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