Fantasies in Steel: The Age of Armor

Jeffrey L. Forgeng, curator of arms and armor and medieval art at the Worcester Art Museum, has a perennial fascination with the human imagination. Armor was mythologized by the cultures that produced it, and it remains a vibrant part of modern mythologies through stories, cinema, and digital games. But what of the realities behind the myth? Who made the armor, who wore it, how well did it work-and how did it come to be in Saint Louis half a millennium later? Forgeng, curator of "Age of Armor: Treasures from the Higgins Armory Collection at the Worcester Art Museum," takes you on a personal journey through highlights of the exhibition and the centuries of human stories forged into the steel of these objects.

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