The Renaissance Master Armourer Anton Peffenhauser
Dr Tobias Capwell, Curator of Arms and Armour, explores the life and work of the Renaissance armourer Anton Peffenhauser (1525-1603). A master of the city of Augsburg in Germany, Peffenhauser was hugely prolific – a great success story in the history of armour – sculpting fine war and tournament armours for the powerful noblemen all over Europe.
Talking About Daggers
Follow Arthur Bijl, Hutton McRoberts Assistant Curator of Ottoman, Middle Eastern and Asian Arms and Armour, as he considers the cultural role daggers played in the Ottoman Empire through the poetic inscriptions on one enigmatic dagger from the sixteenth century. For more information about daggers at the Wallace Collection, watch our free online talk, where Arthur discusses a unique dagger made in medieval Herat.
Fragments of an Imperial Armour
Dr Tobias Capwell, Curator of Arms and Armour, takes a closer look at the surviving fragments of an imperial armour, made by master armourer Konrad Seusenhofer. To discover more about Seusenhofer, watch our free online talk, where Dr Capwell discusses the life and career of one of the greatest armourers of the 16th century.
From The Guarded Domains of Iran
Our Hutton McRoberts Assistant Curator of Ottoman, Middle Eastern and Asian Arms and Armour, Arthur Bijl, invites you to take a closer look at the arms and armour of the reunited 'Guarded Domains of Iran' during the reigns of the early Qajar kings.
Learn more about an exceptional body armour bearing the name of Fath-’Ali Shah Qajar, and the complex role traditional arms and armour played in early nineteenth-century Iran, with our free online talk, From the Guarded Domains of Iran, available now on YouTube.
Armour as Renaissance Art
Curator of Arms and Armour, Dr Tobias Capwell, explores the materials and techniques found in the breath-taking European Armouries.
