“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 1460 crossbow attributed to Heinrich Heid von Winterthur.
Contributors
Dirk H. Breiding
Assistant Curator, Department of Arms and Armor
Assistant Curator, Department of Arms and Armor
Photography by Joseph Coscia Jr.
Art Mentioned
Attributed to Heinrich Heid von Winterthur
dated 1460
More from 82nd and Fifth
Video
How the only print of this landscape photograph is revolutionary.
Malcolm Daniel
April 10, 2013
Video
What’s so significant about the nudity in this early Greek sculpture?
Joan R. Mertens
April 12, 2013
Video
What the hands can tell us in Bellini’s Madonna and Child.
Alison Manges Nogueira
April 17, 2013