Basiliscoe Mercury 325

The Basiliscoe Mercury325


TheInternet newsletter for the arms and armour community


New information on the Staffordshire Hoard, gladiator fresco, lots of news from battlefields, a play set in a museum in Baghdad and a lot of Maximilian-related content for the Met.


Arms and armour in the news


Ancient arms and forts


Ancient dagger goes ondisplay in the Abu Dhabi Louvre

https://www.thenational.ae/arts-cul...m-dubai-unveiled-at-louvre-abu-dhabi-1.917669


2,500 years old sword of Goujian from China

https://www.atlasobshttps://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/pompeii-gladiators


More on the recently found Roman military site in Exeter

http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/roman-military-site-exeter-07643.html


Update on the Staffordshire Hoard and its original owner

https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/who-owned-staffordshire-hoard-clues-3411965


Arrowhead found in Norway; nice pictures and story

https://www.lifeinnorway.net/arrowhead-found-in-hardanger/


Beasts of assorted varieties…


The last mammoth…

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191007081750.htm


Princesses and Amazons


Dressing like a Viking- warning contains fur…

https://www.medievalists.net/2019/10/creating-viking-age-clothing-21st-century/


And yet another piece about Viking women warriors

https://theweek.com/articles/865878/myth-viking-woman-warrior


Through the arrow-slit . . .


Excavations at Pontefract castle- bring your own trowel…

https://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/...ig-at-pontefract-s-historic-castle-1-10046610


Revisions to the York’s Clifford tower visitor experience

https://www.yorkmix.com/no-visitor-...e-revised-plans-for-cliffords-tower-revealed/


Miscellany- mainly Maximillian


Maximilian’s armour

https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2019/10/04/the-art-of-armor


Maximilian’s use of propaganda

https://www.apollo-magazine.com/emperor-maximilian-i-brand-arts/


Portrait of Richard III goes on display at Hever

https://museumcrush.org/unseen-richard-iii-joins-remarkable-tudor-portrait-gallery-at-hever-castle/


Cannons to the left, cannon to the right


Video from Viennaer "Pumhart von Steyr”

https://www.youtube.chttps://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/new...ls-history-of-admiral-duncans-prized-cannons/


Royal Canadian Artillery get 105 mm Howitzer artillery- it’s quite a story

https://www.sootoday.com/great-stories/how-the-sault-armoury-got-hold-of-an-historic-chttps://punemirror.indiatimes.com/p...n-against-miscreants/articleshow/71560582.cms


Sri Lankan fort falls into disrepair

https://www.tamilguardian.com/conte...’s-archaeology-department-ignores-destruction


Back to the front


Where was the battle of Bruhnanburh

https://www.medievalists.net/2019/10/battle-brunanburh-battlefield-discohttps://news.justcollecting.com/gun...bunker-hill-revolutionary-war-morphy-auction/


Update on this season’s work at the Alamo

https://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/archeologists-just-confirmed-an-alamo-legend-as-an-alamo-fact


Development of the hard hat

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/business/hard-hat-history.html


Into the 20th century


Latest soldiers to be reburied in Flanders

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...l-for-british-soldiers-found-in-flemish-field


Tapes of D Day broadcasts preserved

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...-d-day-dispatch-audiotape-basement-180973276/


Nautical news


Update on the San José,

https://elpais.com/cultura/2019/09/19/actualidad/1568911855_433197.html



Museum news and exhibitions


News


Interview with the CEO of the RAF Museum

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/a...ie-appleton-chief-executive-royal-air-460369/


Update on the Louvre’s ticket policy

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/louvre-defends-timed-entry-tickets


UK government gives English museums investment commitments

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/cash-strapped-museums-and-libraries-acrosshttps://www.apollo-magazine.com/def...ezDNf1hgmkbqKnHjSRDfdi0pIAXtFxxxkDvLKw8bV-l1w


Conservation corner


Who stole the Caravaggio?

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/ana...olice-been-chasing-red-herrings-all-this-time


Armsmanufacturing and technology

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49499444


St Albans cathedral restored to colour

https://museumcrush.org/21st-century-tech-restores-the-medieval-colours-of-st-albans-cathedral/


Exhibitions


Treasures from Westminster Abbey to go on view

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...treasures-go-on-display-for-750th-anniversary


Birmingham gallery getsfunding for Crivelli show in 2021

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/birmingham-s-ikon-gallery


Kimonos coming to V&A next year

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2019/oct/09/va-hosts-europes-first-major-exhibition-on-kimono


All Hogarth’s painting series shown together

http://artdaily.com/news/117406/Sir...inted-series-for-the-first-time-#.XZw_km5FyUk

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/gallery/hogarth-at-sir-john-soane-s-museum


East meets West In London

https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...eview-europes-glorious-fascination-with-islam


Stamford Raffles and his collecting in London

https://museumcrush.org/the-things-collected-by-stamford-raffles-explored-at-the-british-museum/


George Stubbs in Milton Keynes

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/oct/10/george-stubbs-review-mk-gallery-milton-keynes


Fine arms and armour at Paris

https://www.musee-armee.fr/au-programme/expositions/detail/les-canons-de-lelegance.html


Rembrandt and Velazquez in Amsterdam

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/review/rembrandt-velazquez


Rubens in Toronto

http://artdaily.com/news/117510/Onc...ter-Paul-Rubens-opens-in-Toronto#.XaGP6DHsZ9A


Review of the Maximilian exhibition at NY

https://observer.com/2019/10/last-k...-maximilian-i-metropolitan-museum-exhibition/


Books


The Art of Fencing: The Discourse of Camillo Palladini

https://shop.royalarmouries.org/col...of-fencing-the-discourse-of-camillo-palladini


More on the new books about the Staffordshire Hoard

https://www.medievalists.net/2019/10/staffordshire-hoard-secrets-revealed-in-new-book/


Round up of recent books on 20th century warfare

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/reviews.html


Publications from Paris

https://www.musee-armee.fr/collections/actualites-des-collections/publications-du-musee.html


Online Book


Ballistics Journal

https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/defence-technology/vol/12/issue/2


Shared Heritage: Joint responsibilities in the Management of British Warship Wrecks Overseas

https://historicengland.org.uk/imag...anagement-of-british-warship-wrecks-overseas/



Popular Culture


New play set in Bagdad Museum

https://www.rsc.org.uk/a-museum-in-baghdad/


Korean comfort women still provoking trouble inJapan

http://artdaily.com/news/117433/Jap...er-Korean--comfort-woman--statue#.XZ2SmzHsZ9A


Events


Diary Dates


Museum events

https://www.khm.at/en/visit/

https://www.gnm.de/en/museum/

https://www.patrimonionacional.es/

https://www.nms.ac.uk/

https://www.iwm.org.uk/


7 November Arms and armour society

Talk by David Edge

https://www.thearmsandarmoursociety.org.uk/events/


Conferences


16-17 November 2019 Portsmouth

The Nautical Archaeology Society and the Ordnance Society

Wooden Walls and Stone Bastions

https://ordnancesociety.org.uk/events-2/


23 November 2-19 Raglan

Symposium: Raglan Castle

https://www.sal.org.uk/events/2019/...ail&utm_term=0_c0cb6b55f1-3da2bfbb2d-83439177


Sales Fairs and auctions


Brochure for Hermann Historica 11-20 November 2019

https://www.hermann-historica.de/upload/BestOf/80/



Websites and downloads


Jan Verbruggen gets his own website

https://janverbruggen.com/


1066 etc: Jihad, Phillip II & Burgundian art

https://www.medievalists.net/2019/10/origins-jihad-islamic-conquests/

https://www.medievalists.net/2019/10/philip-ii-augustus-of-france/

https://www.medievalists.net/2019/10/medieval-manuscripts-book-altar-of-philip-the-good/


Finally


This fortnight I tweeted pictures from the Baltic- a lot of the Vasa….

https://twitter.com/Basiliscoe



Compiled by Ruth Rhynas Brown –15 October 2019


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