Adam Savage Tours the MET's Last Knight Exhibit!

in 1981 14 year-old B saw Excalibur in the theater with my dad and that movie viewing began a lifelong obsession of armor for me I've talked about that many times but I might not have mentioned is that my dad in helping to foment that love of armor that was burgeoning in me took me into New York City to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to see their incredible collection of armor and now here in 2099 back at the Met for a special exhibition they've just put up called the last night and it is a new look and incredible exhibition looking at the history of arms and armor and the theatricality of that through the lens of the last night the Emperor Maximilian the curator is about to take me on a detailed tour through this exhibit and I can't wait so PR would you like to walk me through this so every great pleasure or we're entering here at the first gallery which is introducing Maximilian as it as a very young man an 18 year old in the country we doesn't speak the language he's coming to power in the Low Countries mmm today's Netherlands Belgium and although France Luxembourg and when he arrives he he has not much to offer he's marrying the princess the heirs of the land we have burgundy and he has a lot of enthusiasm and no experience no money of his own not really troops either and but the land is under attack of the King of France so this is his first challenge how is he going to defend his wife's inheritance especially when he's an outsider and part of his resolution is to inspire the the local nobility to serve him service outward the outward to give them something to leave them a role model to say actually we have the same value except that I may carry them even better than you do and so it's the idea that is he's one of them but he may be the right leader because he's supportive in how he does it and the armor is the way that his messaging that and it is so this piece the front piece of the exhibition I've looked at pictures of this thousands of times I had no idea how svelte and tiny it's almost like a piece of jewelry it was meant to be a piece of jewelry it's an armor for battle I have no doubt that his armor was actually used in in battle it was it was Maximian fought on the first first battle in 1479 on foot meaning he made making the point he would not be able to escape risking capture risking being killed to motivate his troops and the year later he was still finding the French were encroaching on the on the on the Burgundian Netherlands and he commissioned this armor in Augsburg in Germany and it was delivered to him and he we have a picture showing him entering a city in his own lands writing and what appears to be this very armour is it over the top armor it really had it made for the very purpose of showing that he had potentially all unlimited wealth that he was actually a German but a very capable one within you know within the within the context of the Low Countries its I this the edge detail on this gold actual separately made edge detail around it it's so unique I've never seen that before it's it's it was under fashion in the 15th century in some lands but there are very few armors that survived to have that the articulation of the gauntlets of the legs is exquisite the pierced work all these ribs all these fluting it's an armor is designed to impress and we found the payment for it and so we know we know how how much how expensive it really was it was part of a larger group of things so how much did it cost that you can buy it you could buy a town house you could buy Thomas instead of this armor a New York town huh you could buy a new york town house for this also in the tens of millions and i would go about half way okay Wow what is also interesting with this Armour is that his helmet was became separated from the rest of the armor this is the first time in decades that we were able to reunite the helmet with the armor Wow so this actually the other part of walking through this exhibit that amazes me is the idea of all the places these pieces come from I mean does this travel in a box with someone handcuffed to it how do you and you get to ship this they're there they're some of them are shipped almost as a Lego as a kit they're completely disassembled and they need to be put together and that's how they would have been shipped in there and immediate in Middle Ages and others come more as there's a fully assembled figure as a statue so to speak okay and then you just pull them out of their crates is this the first suit of armor he he really wore this don't knows the first one that survives he or he had some I found one I found a payment when he was 13 year old he OD he already had one had many but this one was kept in part because it was worn in triumph and it was a memento of the fact that he had succeeded in repelling the invasion amazing so this gallery is about how Maximian expands the arena of his messaging mm-hmm he looks fabulous here and triumphs coming after about all into a town but the tournament is the place where more people can see just what he's made of right so all these armors were commissioned to show his skills his ability to ride as a horseman and he will compete if he didn't got injured and he competed all time he was constantly injured he competed till the end he it was he was an avid hunter he really liked jogging - it was um we have reports from ambassadors there's nothing gets done here is always jousting we've we've been waiting for an opportunity to meet with him and this is this is one of his jousting this is one of the jousting armors so this is for the so-called joust of war that is it's supposed to look like a reenactment of war and the Lance's have this very pointed structure how massive they are makes you think of what it is like when you have a horse galloping and this is struck these are three examples of the of the types of heads that would be mounted on a consulate so there they're fine the terrifying know the absolute are and that's what the goal wasn't to kill each other no but these who have the power to pierce everything yes so these shields they're so wrapped on the armor they actually have metal parts too and then the goal was to either splinter the lance or to throw the other night off the horse so what is this I don't I haven't seen this kind of thing before this giant little plate on the left yeah so basically you have you have a target mm-hmm there it is so there's a pocket edge so it's a receptacle almost to take the impact uh-huh how are you and have a better target which is the head if you look at the head the two plates on the forehead on the brow those are designed to fly off when they get hit this little staple the brass staple holding the down yeah so it's fine to aim at the head and when you see what these would look like you have to imagine the shocks which is why the chin is bow in place this this whole thing is creating a safety distance so that the so that the armor is so that the the knight here doesn't get his head torn that's correct right so but the break the neck so the so the two halves would fly off when they got hit it's this is like pro wrestling is a theater to it their theater is everywhere there's a lot of drama maximun was not just content with we're doing new conventional things he's actually imagining new kinds of tournament they'll be more spectacular and we have some artifacts that to speak to that now is it you is it is I'm assuming that this would be the horse armor that went with this jousting armor yes I mean that red line the horse just line the horse so that when the horses come so that the horse doesn't deviate this is a kind of jobs where you don't have tilt you don't have a fence separating the participants okay so there's the possibility because it's like it must look like war so it's an open field so the horses will be scared of colliding so it's easier to blind them gone and they're specially trained to run blindly so it's not that you typical war horse you have to rent them notice the eyes work so they're covered they're just representing him bluing and sometimes the horses did collide and sometimes the horses were killed and the writers themselves so it was it was a friendly combat but he was very dangerous well here we we have we have examples of that so I've never seen anything like this and then I look here and these are the only three surviving examples that's correct so what are these they've never imagined such so they they don't look at you typical breastplate of an armor because they have all this openwork they're not really covering the entire chest and they're they're designed to just carry shield in the front that is you're the target and these tournaments what's so fascinating is they're full of spring-loaded mechanisms that are designed to eject the shield in the air so the if the shield is struck the shield is released flies off above the head and some shields were designed to be covered with like the slices of a pie with little plates okay and then the dispersed in the air like fireworks and again this is like the theater of the victory you get to society it's it's a bit like paintball it's a say you're your hits you're not dead but you you clearly lost they're all different they have they don't have quite the same mechanism they were not made by the same people but they're all clearly mature examples of the time there are not prototypes and quite mature and so interestingly all of them are missing something so there's a lot of brainstorming about what was actually the operating principle oh okay I'm gonna take lots of pictures of these because I seriously would love to build and test one I would love for that to happen it makes me feel so close to them the idea of the all this ingenuity going towards the theater of battle just for the audience to see that's what I mean for some reason that that bridge is this century's that divide us it makes me understand this a little more great really the indem it's so easy to think of arms and armor as something military this is a different feel this is a kind of spectacles entertainments practicing honing one skills and the account books of Maximian he didn't know I would have access to them but for this research I actually went and saw who he was paying and what they were doing for him we it looks like it's clock makers were helping making these devices so it's not it's not just the armor is collaborating with the mechanical geniuses of the time yeah who therefore came with different solutions to the same practical problem of ejecting a shield amazing are there are there are times when you have a piece in front of you and you are able to start to recognize the work of specific shops or specific artisans typically the frustrating part here is we can it is also interesting that there is none before max means time and there none after his time really so it's clearly correlated with it and there's a letter to a confidence that he rode when it was still very much a young man I think was maybe 21 and he's writing and he says I have dreamed of new games so if you they may they may not have had a hand in the design but he may certainly have something encouraged the clock makers and the armors to come up with something fresh something exciting that's can we talk about these yes of course old pieces that these are meant to be fought on foot or these part of games these these are these are the probably the closest thing to a tank that you would see in this exhibition they're so massive they are really here they leave virtually no opening they're shown back-to-back but almost like an English duel in the 19th century where the story is the the one in covered in gold belonged to Maximilian was made for him and the one that is here is a trophy that he kept this belonged to a burgundy Knight called code the valet who is an older man at the time somebody who had fought everywhere was on Maximian side and was virtually undefeated in any form of combat he was he was really one of the superstars of his age also at war had illustrated himself and it looks like this armor is not homogeneous he looks like he hand-picked the pieces that he liked the most how fascinating this is an armor that is all Italian but the pieces don't quite go together and I think we know there was a master of arms an instructor how you can fight who said there are three people on in Europe at the time who really knew their stuff and he's mentioned as one having a phenomenal armoury who has done metallurgical investigations and this is his armor one II challenge makes me and he said I'm here to fight the premier king of the world it's you of course and maximin try to elude the the combat he was not comfortable even though I think he was about 60 at the time it makes me what is in his 20s oh wow and and he nevertheless max-min feared the shame of being overpowered in public by this man either he had the elegance of losing or maxing actually was the vitality to to overcome him as a memento a cape the armor as a memento and so it's a it's showing and making the point that armor beyond its functionality was also kept as a way of telling stories great deeds a bit as a commemorative monuments when you say you can tell the pieces don't exactly go together what are the witness marks or what are the things that didn't tell you that there's armor actually these armor actually has eight marks the Italian armor making is always very confusing because they didn't have as many guild regulations as in Germany okay so what you have is a general contractor who undertakes to make an armor and can make it the armor but doesn't need to we'll find them specific for people to just make the legs or make the arms okay and it appears that usually the general contractor stamps is mark above everybody else's and the subcontractors have their own mark but there is something that ties them together which is this general contractors are yeah here it's really a mixture you don't have hang so it looks like it's all a tie in but mixed matched by row delay because that's what he felt we're going to be the most effective how throwing can we talk about these amazing pieces yes so the tournament is a spectacle there's no spectacle without an audience and Maximian was married twice in his life the size for his second wife he built this he lived in the Low Countries at the beginning of his reign and then he moved to Innsbruck around fourteen ninety and inherited the palace that he sort of expanded and he built a loggia to look down at the main square where all the tournaments were being disputed which is why this is here he's looking at his own spectacle he's looking at his own game yeah he's represented here with his current wife that is holding a Golden Apple which is the prize for the tournament and his former wife the deceased is on on the side would that have been would have been much brighter back in the day it would have been brighter as far as we know it's likely there was more white and and with very bright highlights no it's more muted so this Golden Apple might have been actually a little bit yeah very shiny very striking absolutely and interesting enough he's then surrounding that all these dancers and these dancers are doing these contortions it's a very it's a particular kind of dancer but they're not professional dancers there are his courtiers and if you jousted you have to dance afterwards I mean are you not done after you fell I fell off your horse or yeah you have to you have to go back in have a banquet and late at night who do all the dancing and so some of them have coats-of-arms on their clothing and we can tell that that that's just part of the expectations maxima and himself love dancing so the tournament is part of a very large festive program some time in last several days and the the dancing eros dominates the scene and there's quite a lot quite a bit of it and below we have his coat of arms there are things he had but interesting and have there also things that he wanted their claims for the aspirational they're aspirational so you have a Hungary for example represented on the top left okay and he had the rights to claim Hungary yeah made a deal with the king of Hungary that he said we're going to have a chin roll intermarry and whoever has a male heir will if there are spring is a male and the other one branch dies out that one gets to keep Hungary and so as part of the deal he got the rights to bear the title of king of Hungary even though he didn't go there and so we have here all this art shown articulated and am i right these have never travelled before these as far as I know I've never even been shown outside of the city Wow they're a part of the building until the 1960s then removed for safety replaced by replicas and never stayed in a museum and it's quite a it's quite an extraordinary historical event that they would go abroad and that they could be shown there they're I think they're highly relevant today they show that even when maximun was not watching his tournaments because he staged many from a firm from the blood job he's still here he's actually represented he could have one of his representatives and he's there part of the composition yeah a person is really feels like they're starting to emerge out of out of all of these are given a car a character character all the character is gonna emerge even more if you look at the drawings it was not enough to participate in tournaments to be seen it was more important for people to know about that he had done those things so he invented the alter egos he wrote several autobiographical works there about him but he has an out here's a different name however everybody that is this alter ego meets is a real person and maximin new so this is the story of a knight who has to fight countless opponents and also enter into dense in competitions and will earn the hand of the bride at the end of the day and maximilian is called Fida and all of these and but all of the opponents are actual people that adjusted against there are 256 of these scenes these are the sketches that were reviewed and then the ones that he reviewed and he rejected oh my god this is wrong it's it's the other way around I was him and he was and he was there and so then they were a deluxe version made in miniature mm-hm and then the the ambition was to make a prince version for everybody to be a to have access to it and you have one of the versions by Durer here where you see the sketch yeah and then the print version oh my goodness you get to see a dural workshop of the lure of adaptation of the original sketch and interestingly now Maximian was constantly running out of money so only five of these woodcuts were made out of the twenty and fifty six illustrations so this is one of these many unfinished projects he saw too big and we have what he dictated to his secretaries so safe hideout him struck which means he's it's fine for him to lose he's shown him as a loser but what's important is that he tried yeah he's fearless he lost so he say and then he describes the opponent what color he had on what the call of the lion in his head was and so forth doing very close copy editing reviewing all the designs making sure that it were to his liking and if talking about a character he was the same with armor yeah he was micromanaging the work of his armor is telling them how to do things this is such a beautiful thing you get a sense of the of the industry of the art director and the the execution of the it's really incredible to be to see these two side-by-side and that's what makes him an emperor because to get door to do this you probably use gentle persuasion amazing so this is um the exhibition is going to talk about how one maximum wanted in life right and how he tried to get it at some point is exasperating to to be always in Maximus head and this is a moment of where we can breathe and we're in the presence of the many armor as a work form so this room is all about the different armors work for him their Styles the places where they lived we have a bit of a social history in the middle talking about the ones that they were never paid how about the ones who are no bold how about the ones that he moved around so I guess some people I mean I tend to think that a king would have his his Armour shop but you're describing a whole industry that supports there a lot of freelancers okay he needs more and then the people in his service can deliver he creates his own workshop and in its Brook and then he keeps hiring people but his finance officer says that's too many people we can't we can find the resources to pay all these people yeah and he doesn't look at how many armors he's already commissioned because he's giving them away he's giving them as gifts oh my god as diplomatic gifts so their loss of armors are not for him how do you need them anyway and we have so many the exhibition like this one over there this one is this one but another another completely enclosed armor if you look at these little pieces on the face defense yeah they can activate little shutters so that you can have air but if you if you want to close the vents you can actually shut them so that no edged weapon can go in there I'm quite surprised the the lames of the of the articulations seem much thinner than I then I expect them to be there are very lights in this particular instance it's it is a curious armor it's designed for the foot combat just like the ones we looked at it's the more modern version because it has a trunk rather than a sort of bell-shaped skirt okay it's very cleverly articulated basically functions like the musical instrument the arms are designed to slide inside the shoulders and the legs and the Lazy a telescopic the legs are designed to slide they can they can stretch more and then a human body can so the idea is and any extension and the armor is not an impediment because it will it would go that far unfortunately over time the arms have gotten out of the shoulders which right now if you look at the proportion there's a little something off yeah whereas the legs can still go in and out of the trunk so the the proportions are not quite what the armor would have looked like in its original state and was who was this made for was this used in battle so this was made for the tournament it was made for Giuliano de Medici who was a the younger brother of the Pope at the time and contemporary says he was rather uninterested in warfare not really interested in physical exercise prefer books so it's a little bit odd but as this at the head of the sect of the secular head of the Medici family he had to have armor right and we don't believe he ever used it wow this was made for him sent to him as a present and it probably just is just probably stayed in Andover and the Wardrobe amazing so I would have put it on the moment it arrived I this particularly thrilled me seeing these armor tools well they're glad are these from specific workshops that Maximilian worked with no these are not historical tools in that sense these come from our department okay highs and hundreds of tools because when our department was founded in 1912 where we already had had an honorary curator of arms and armor and he came from the field of zoology and Natural Sciences and he was a curator of fishes at the Natural History Museum okay Park sure this is so professor at Columbia University and he became the first curator of arms Narmer at the Met and he came from the idea that if you were to display a dinosaur and you didn't really missing one leg if the visitors might think dinosaurs only had three legs so he you would make a cast a plaster cast and you will make the fourth leg he believed that if an armor was missing an arm the arm should be made so we have a smithy in our in our department and he hired in Europe Armorer's who would be able to reconstruct the missing pieces and some of the armors we have on display and is explained on the label have a new helmet that was made in here at the Met in the workshop generations of craftsmen came from Germany from France and they trained American ones and to this day we still make pieces we always disclose that yeah but we have therefore hundreds of tools and now we have accession are part of our collection but we still use them so here which we took a selection of tools from our from these generations of people work at the Met to both call attention to the fact that it's an ongoing an ongoing story but also they're very conventional they look exactly what like what you would see in the iconography of the time I have hammers and stakes similar to this in my own shop that I use on a regular basis I love these these these helmets this this particular this duck face it's very massive it's very powerful it's it's there side by side to show first of all what happens over two decades the change of style ah which is the earlier one this is the earlier walking this is an invention this combines the chin piece with the top when the Buddha skull defense normally at the time there would have been separate pieces so it's kind of a combination and it's also the work of one armor that was in maximum service called Oh handsome speed mm-hm and the other one is either made by low hands 25 years later working in the new fashion or made by his son who was working in his workshop and was hired by Max min so max minner he lived long enough to hire two generations of father and son both of them became his corner armors and this is unsigned and since the son was so closely involved in his father's workshop it's not always possible and I said there's a stamp to tell whether in the presence of the Sun or the father's work I have never seen so such a large scale chasing relief done and I can tell because this is what makes it's this one a site apart from everything else horse armor was often made of boy leather was very hard it was enough yeah and then because it's for glancing blows know exactly horses and then you have a version that is metal but in it typically has holes to attach fabric to it was just the Foundation's just the base okay this one clear was not meant to be covered with anything else it was meant to be seen in his current state so it's embossed like all this work all this tooling it's not very sophisticated necessarily in there and how perfectly done it is always very bold it's really meant to be seen from afar the whole surface is stippled somebody wanted with the punch and it's really angry view maybe you can see it and you hand the border oh yes the emblems there's these little triangles the entire surface is covered with all spiral dots we actually know the person who did this it was a goldsmith in Brussels and what will have oil ice the purpose was to give tack to the silver foil and the gold that was all over the surface when this armor was in original state it was like a mirror it was completely sober there are traces of the silver but over the centuries it has lost a great deal you can see the silver here oh yes over there and there's still traces of the gold that would have been over all the fruits all the pomegranates all the branches oh my goodness so it was a very spectacular armor and it's here because it's the probably the only arm in this show that must have been made for maximum or his son mm-hmm but that was rigged if did he was gifted 208 oh really so this was more maybe after a match of rugby match when they exchanged shirts yeah yeah at some of the time and some encounter of dates change horses or they were in exchanges of gifts and say why don't you take my my horse and my armor so this next room that we're about to approach I'm really really excited about because I found me with its kid it's child armor yes it seems so decadent and so crazy to make an unbelievable breastplate like this for a nine-year-old is that a seven year I think I think about seven based on the dimensions yeah this is about Maximian as a head of a family so he's providing for his children his children Grunch in order to succeed he wants them to mirror his own image videos who wants them to find the right brides and they marry children in those days so from the beginnings question of as my child worthy of attention in this instance there's the call of the order of the Golden Fleece each didn't know the color that's okay yeah and that's very important because he's the only child in that order it's meant for grown-up men where I have demonstrated what they're made of this is a child but he's the Crown Prince he has to take over one day on behalf of maximum for the Low Countries so he's the only one who gets to be in the order this is the first armor what a chain which members had to wear every day doesn't need to be worn anymore because it's already there it's already represented so if you have it on the armor you don't need to have it bouncing on the metal as you ride your horse car this is an equestrian armor so it was meant for with the lance rest right it was meant for practice it's clear that this boy was not just wearing it for a ceremony he was actually riding horses and using the Lance ah so yeah this is old this is a world of teenagers this have maximum Sun here and then we have his grand he had two grandsons this is one of them what we see on the breastplate is clean imitation of the costume at the time it's bulging and as the slits as they would have had in shirts right but then other parts are treated differently and I think they were just meant to look like this it's a fashion statement this is um it looks a bit like a costume it has the shoulder defences of an armor for battle right but all these ribs are and what you see on the thighs sagging yeah that's this that's describing a kind of like where right right be fashion so it's replicating cloth as we're pleading cloth in metal and this is the on the unfinished armor in the exhibition oh really it's yeah this is why it's brown and blue this is why you don't see any etching or any decoration just they stopped working on it how come two possibilities this child was going too fast and by the time by the time they were about to finish it I realize he will not fit anything we were wondering about that what you were a kid for armor it's gonna take a period of till eight days of your time and the other possibility which is I think more likely is that the armor is was none being paid anymore and it just said well why do I continue well speaking of replicating cloth this is this is a this skirt is so demonstrative it's incredible it is the same kind of technique right it's like we we say good ruined when you raised a medal and has this sort of a semicircular shape and obviously it had a panel in the front on back so you could write you look like a skirt when you're walking right when you gone on the horse you can stick assess it yeah saddle comfortably the day is that black fabric underneath is Velvets the hell replace but this was originally there we knew it from the payment records and then it's covered with plates of silver then there there is guilt amazing vague exquisite armor and again in turn in the inside of the arms then that did that also telescope it does and then the shoulders are so very unusual they yeah they overlap the torso you can do full rotation of the arm they have to look like short sleeves they should not look like armor hmm interesting also is this little loop in the front skirt yes it was designed it was design so you could suspend your sword you didn't have to wear a belts that would ever interfere with the experience so you could just use these clips basically just clip on your your sword that seems so convenient surprised I haven't seen more of that there should have done more it became a standard fixture of the some 17th century armors oh yes this hat for a very long time this armor was thought to be have belong to a cardinal because and because one wonder this was in Spain for a raid from the 16th century or onward it was in Spain and Philip the 4th of Spain where in the 1620s yeah had the brother called the Cardinal infant of Spain Ferdinand and this armor at the time was thought to be a 17th century armor because the hats remain reminded the curators yeah of a carnal but it has nothing to do with it it's actually a civilian hat and again like the skirts why not why not make why not make a fashionable hand out of metal if you can and so it's a it's a powerful statement we don't know of a single other helmet like this amazing made I'm particularly fascinated by this armor mm-hmm it seems almost unadorned it's so sculptural just on the body which is why it is here it's a true work of sculpture the way it almost looks like it's it's molded over the boy's body almost looking it could be a wet you know wet suits or something like that and yet the articulation is phenomenal it doesn't interfere over the overall silhouette we wish we knew what their arms and and and the head would have look like other very interesting thing so many visitors not to this exhibition they want to know about the functionality of these armors they often ask about how people go to the bathroom as an Armour has an integral caught piece it's not removable when you put it on you're in trouble oh it's so it's that clean to be used in the foot combat it's had as a beginning as an anyway that's not for every day where is enough every day where but it's it's um it's also is making the point that again it's a costume it's it's it's close fitting and in sculpture but the presence of the copies is just a fashion statement it's what the male attire would look like in textile as well these are mind-blowing I have literally never seen anything like this where do these these are maximillian's gauntlets we believe that they are because he's do it they come from the Habsburg armory mm-hmm and there's only one person who would have the this size and had lived at the time to have owned them and it's Maximilian and where do these fall within his life how old was he when these were made these are completely confusing oh yes there are a prize and an instructure and they're Gothic late Gothic so maybe 14 890 or so which means then Maximian was would have been in his early 40s late 30s early 40s possibly but what's so interesting is that they're also decorated with itching you see how there's a wolf's head over over the metal oh yes yes and then there's a floral decoration on the edges so this kind of decoration normally surfaces in the 1530s so 40 years later and there's of course experimentation with etching earlier on so are these the earliest example of this style there are homogeneous that is the decoration goes with the gauntlets right the way that these lames are cut it's clear that they wanted to have a wall said right and then the etching is original to the gauntlets but is it possible that these gauntlets were made at a later time investment but they are like historicizing and they're trying to look offic that an armor was tasked with the goal of creating a relic or an object that would have captured Maximian in his prime we don't know what we do know is that Charles a face on them and we believe that he removed them when he abdicated and moved to Spain he took them with him as like souvenirs or what his grandfather was like which is why we closing the show as the last night there was a bit of a cult within the Habsburg family and that's what we wanted them presented as a regal objects on the pillow amazing but I wish we knew more there put their bill drink there they're still oh it's an opportunity to read to look at them very carefully and and understand them better that's only beautifully made I've been to so many exhibitions of armor and I feel like this has widened my mind as in terms of the whole scope of the art of arms and armor I really it's a beautiful exhibition well thank you I think it was a great compliment cause I know how much you know investigated well thank you so much that was unbelievable and it's open till January 5th is that right until January 5th get yourself to the Met and come see this exhibition if you have any interest in arms and armor this is a really unique experience thank you my pleasure thank you

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Length: 36min 57sec (2217 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 23 2019