经典风格的盾牌 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	经典风格的盾牌
品名（英）	Shield in the Classical Style
入馆年号	1904年，04.3.260
策展部门	武器和盔甲（Arms and Armor）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1735 - 公元 1795
创作地区	原产国: 法国, 巴黎（Country of Origin: France, Paris）
分类	护罩（Shields）
尺寸	高 23 1/8 英寸 (58.7 厘米); 宽 15 1/4 英寸 (38.7 厘米); 重 13 磅 11 盎司 (6209 g)
介绍（中）	这个非凡的盾牌和一顶相关的头盔的重量之大也被大都会博物馆收藏（04.3.259）（每顶超过13磅）表明它们从未被打算佩戴。它们一定只是起到了纯粹的装饰作用，也许是装饰性武器的一部分，为一些丰富的内部增添了光彩青铜头盔碗和盾牌被镀银，看起来像蓝钢。精心制作的奥莫卢（镀金青铜）底座是单独铸造的，并单独连接在底座上。这些支架的质量与1760年左右在巴黎制造的最好的奥莫卢家具支架相当，当时新古典主义设计取代了洛可可。这顶头盔和盾牌可能不是军械师的作品，而是由艺术家设计的，由制作家具支架和其他装饰性青铜制品的工匠或作坊制作的到18世纪，盔甲的用途主要是象征性的。基于古典原型的盔甲唤起了古希腊和罗马的英雄气质。这种盔甲被广泛用于绘画、装饰艺术和戏剧中。
介绍（英）	The great weight of this extraordinary shield and a related helmet also in the Metropolitan Museums collection (04.3.259) (over thirteen pounds each) indicates that they were never intended to be worn. They must have served a purely decorative function, perhaps as part of an ornamental panoply of arms that graced some rich interior. The bronze helmet bowl and shield were silvered and patinated to look like blued steel. Finely crafted ormolu (gilt bronze) mounts were cast separately and attached individually to them. The mounts are equal in quality to the best ormolu furniture mounts made in Paris around 1760, when Neoclassical design was superseding Rococo. Rather than the work of an armorer, this helmet and shield were probably designed by an artist and made by a craftsman or workshop that produced furniture mounts and other decorative bronze objects. By the eighteenth century, the purpose of armor was chiefly symbolic. Armor based on Classical prototypes invoked the heroic qualities of ancient Greece and Rome. Representations of such armor were widely used in painting, the decorative arts, and the theater.