Body of Knowledge: Renaissance Armor and the Engineering of Mind = Cuerpos del conocimiento: armaduras del Renacimiento y la ingeniería de la mente

Body of Knowledge: Renaissance Armor and the Engineering of Mind = Cuerpos del conocimiento: armaduras del Renacimiento y la ingeniería de la mente

This essay charts the role of armor in Renaissance practices of knowledge. Since the advent of gunpowder warfare, armor was largely unfit for combat, yet still became a centerpiece of princely representation and was prominently displayed in early collection spaces. Rather than illustrating chivalric...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Felix Jäger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) 2018-12-01
Series:Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie VII, Historia del Arte
Subjects:
Armor
body politics
mnemonics
prosthesis
studiolo
natural history
chamber of curiosities
automata = Armadura
política corporal
prótesis
 studiolo (taller de arte)
historia natural
sala de curiosidades
automata.
Online Access:http://revistas.uned.es/index.php/ETFVII/article/view/22948

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