My kids played with them вЂ“ and others, new ones, that came at Christmas and on birthdays. They are veterans of many campaigns, sieges, tournaments. Toy soldiers to most military miniatures to the serious.

The mirror gleam of their armor, symbol of power and prestige in their lifetimes, survives as a looking glass that takes us back to their world вЂ“ as it was, and as they wanted us to see it. вЂњThe Last Knight: The Art, Armor and Ambition of Maximilian I,вЂќ now on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, suggests that rulers like Maximilian labored long and hard to ensure that their legacies вЂ“ and legends вЂ“ would live on after them, reverberating down the centuries. But that world, the world of the knights, maintains its grip on our imaginations. Names of places absorbed into history and geography classes, the lines that defined them erased from maps, they are as far from us as the world of armored knights, tapestried courts, chivalry and jousts, shifting alliances and expedient betrayals that sustained them for centuries. NEW YORK CITY вЂ“ The Duchies of Burgundy and the Low Countries. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Imperial Armoury (A 110 1). Steel, leather, copper alloy, and gold 15 by 13-5/8 by 8-15/16 inches. Combination Sallet and Bevor of Maximilian I by Lorenz Helmschmid (first recorded 1467, died 1516), German (Augsburg), circa 1495.

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