Two-Handed Sword
A two-handed sword could span up to 6 ft. in length. It was initially a specialized weapon for the infantry, used for cutting or thrusting, to penetrate the enemy's front line. After the introduction of firearms to the battlefield by the end of the 1500s, the role of the two-h...
Artifact
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1506
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object
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normalized
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provenance
Schloss Mainberg, near Kitzingen; Sale, Rudolph Lepke, Baden-Baden, 1901, no. 73; Henry Griffith Keasbey, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, American Art Association, New York, December 5-6, 1924, no. 89; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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1
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