Armor and Lance for Fighting on Horseback

Armor: ca. 1530; Lance: 17th century

68 cm 166 cm 44 cm

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The heavily armored knight of noble birth, wielding a 12' lance and mounted on a sturdy war-horse, was the dominant force on the medieval battlefield from the 9th to the mid 14th century, when improved weapons and training made the infantry his equal. However, mounted, armored...

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Sale, American Art Association, New York, November 19, 1921, no. 314; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1921, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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