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Sullivan Museum-directed Lunch and Learn will examine work of 16th century armor designer Daniel Hopfer
Metallurgical craftsmanship and scholarship will complement the 2021 Peace and War Virtual Summit on this week’s Norwich University events calendar.
From noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Norwich history professor Dr. Emily Fisher Gray will present “The Work of Daniel Hopfer: 16th Century Armorer, Artist, and Religious Radical” in a virtual Lunch and Learn presented by the Sullivan Museum and History Center.
Dr. Emily Fisher Gray will discuss armor design by 16th century designer Daniel Hopfer. (Screenshot from video/Todd Lecture Series.)
Gray earned her doctorate in Early Modern European History from the University of Pennsylvania in 2004 and joined Norwich University’s faculty in 2007. She has written on the Protestant Reformation’s early causes and progress, Lutheran-Catholic co-existence and Lutheran architecture aesthetics. She has done research in churches, libraries an
Norwich University Newsroom Sullivan Museum and History Center presents “The Work of Daniel Hopfer: 16th Century Armorer, Artist and Religious Radical” By NU Office of Communications March 03, 2021
NORTHFIELD, Vt. Norwich University’s Sullivan Museum and History Center presents History Professor Emily Gray’s “The Work of Daniel Hopfer: 16th Century Armorer, Artist and Religious Radical,” a Lunch and Learn event that looks at decorative armor and social change in the late Renaissance from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, March 10.
The talk supplements the extension of the current exhibit, “Forged and Fired: The Art of Weaponry.” German armor decorator Daniel Hopfer (1483-1538) created fancy dress armor for the Holy Roman emperors (pictured). His work includes monsters, mermaids and other mythical creatures. He applied his armor-etching techniques to flat metal plates to create images for Reformation pamphlets. Gray will discuss the armor etching
Norwich University Sullivan Museum and History Center presents talk on ‘Pandemia’s Black Feather,’ a mask-inspired dress By NU Office of Communications February 15, 2021
NORTHFIELD, Vt. Norwich University’s Sullivan Museum and History Center presents Samantha R. Talbot-Kelly in a prerecorded interview on her installation “Pandemia’s Black Feather,” handmade masks outfitted on a mannequin that resembles a fashionable sci-fi couture dress.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, masks have become a significant part of our lives. We wear them to protect ourselves and to protect those around us. Talbot-Kelly, a seamstress in Norwich University’s Uniform Store and an adjunct faculty member in the School of Architecture+Art, has created “Pandemia’s Black Feather” (pictured).