Arms and Armor from Imperial Austria
February 25th, 2008
If you can not make it to the museum visit the website at http://www.clevelandart.org/ and answer the following questions:
1. Besides armor what else can you view from Austria?
2. What time period was imperial Austria?
3. Tell me three things you learned after visiting this site.
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1. Besides armor what else can you view from Austria?
portraits, carvings, guns, swords, maps, engravings. much more listed in what i turned in during class
2. What time period was imperial Austria?
1110-1800 roughly
3. Tell me three things you learned after visiting this site.
that the hasburgs ruled imperial austria
The Graz armory was founded to protect the region from Turkish expansion during the late Middle Ages.
the exhibit has things that have never left austria before.
1.Besides armor what else can you view from Austria?
~ paintings, graphics, and decorative arts of the period.
2.What time period was imperial Austria?
~ around 1110-1800
3.List three things that you learned from the site.
A. The Graz armory was founded to protect their region from Turkish expansion towards the end of the Middle Ages.
B. The armory houses about 30,000 pieces, about enough to equip an army of 5000.
C. “The large quantities of more purely functional armor to be used by town voulunteers in the event of an attack.”
1. Besides armor what else can you view from Austria?
You can see paintings, spears, graphics, decorative arts, firearms, and the Landeszeughaus, one of the biggest armories in the world.
2. What time period was imperial Austria?
It was approximately 1110-1800.
3. Tell me three things you learned after visiting this site.
1. The Landeszeughaus was one of the biggest armories.
2. The Hapsburgs built armor for armories to protect Austria from the invading Ottomans.
3. Armor reached peak production in the 16th century.
1) weapons such as swords and guns, many paintings, sculptures, wood pieces and a lot of other kinds of art.
2)1110 through 1800
3)
a)to avoid Turkish invasion the graz armory was founded
b)the hasborgs sponsored much of the aromory
c)the graz armory is one of the only collections left from the renaissance period
1.Besides armor what else can you view from Austria?
Weapons, paintings, and other cultured peices
2.What time period was imperial Austria?
in the ballpark of 1110-1800
3.List three things that you learned from the site.
A. The armory houses about 30,000 pieces of armor
B. The exhibit has never left Austria
C. The Graz armory was founded to protect their region from Turkish expansion towards the end of the Middle Ages.
1. Besides armor what else can you view from Austria?
portraits, paintings, armors, engravings, graphics, and other decorative arts of the period
2. What time period was imperial Austria?
around 1100-1800
3. Tell me three things you learned after visiting this site.
a. The Graz armory was founded to protect the region from Turkish expansion during the late Middle Ages.
b. The armory houses some 30,000 pieces
c. The most illustrious patrons of this era were the Habsburgs
1. Besides armor what else can you view from Austria?
decorative arts, paintings, portraits, and weapons
2. What time period was imperial Austria?
around 1100-1800
3. Tell me three things you learned after visiting this site.
A. The Armory houses about 30,000 pieces of armor
B. The Landeszeughaus was one of the biggest armories.
C. The Graz armory was founded to protect their region from Turkish expansion towards the end of the Middle Ages.
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