Armour and Masculinity in The Italian Renaissance by Carolyn Springer
8vo. pp. xii, 241. b/w illustrations. bibliography. index. hardcover. dw. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, [2010].
New.
from the University of Toronto Press Toronto Italian Studies series.
ISBN-10: 1442640553/ ISBN-13: 9781442640559
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During the Italian Wars of 1494 to 1559, with innovations in military technology and tactics, armour began to disappear from the battlefield. Yet as field armour was retired, parade and ceremonial armour grew increasingly flamboyant. Displaced from its utilitarian function of defence but retained for symbolic uses, armour evolved in a new direction as a medium of artistic expression.