"Art history is very much like detective work, and if you're lucky there's even a mystery to be solved."
Curator Dirk Breiding on a crossbow attributed to Heinrich Heid von Winterthur.
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Is an inscription in Hebrew letters on this crossbow a secret code?
"Art history is very much like detective work, and if you’re lucky there’s even a mystery to be solved."
Dirk H. Breiding
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Dirk H. Breiding
Assistant Curator, Department of Arms and Armor
Assistant Curator, Department of Arms and Armor
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Heinrich Heid von Winterthur
dated 1460