Arms and Armour
Art marketnews
Private museum's collection of ancient arms and armour could bring in £22m at Christie’s
The privately-owned Mougins Museum of Classical Art closed in August for a revamp to rebrand as what has been described as Europe’s "first major museum dedicated to work by women artists"
Auctionsnews
Looted Indian sword fetches record ₤14m at Bonhams
Taken as a trophy from the bedside of the dead Tipu Sultan in 1799 by British troops, the sword’s high estimate was ₤2m
Acquisitionsnews
Ronald Lauder presents major gift of European arms and armour to the Met
Describing the donation as the most significant to the department in nearly 80 years, museum will rename galleries after the philanthropist
Book Shortsreview
This facsimile of a late 16th-century Italian manuscript on how to fence is a masterpiece of draughtsmanship
Camillo Palladini was a master swordsman whose work has been lost for centuries until this publication