A lavish and innovative exploration of the arms and armor of the men and women of the Renaissance and Baroque eras, Knights in Shining Armor is published to coincide with the landmark exhibition at the Allentown Art Museum. Ida Sinkevic and four leading experts describe the Culture of Arms, the Representation of Arms in Art and Printmaking, as well as the fascinating field of the Manly Woman and the women-at-arms of the time. The book and the exhibition illustrate the intimacy of arms and art in the era before mass production turned weapons into banal instruments of war.

Ida Sinkevic is Associate Professor of Art at Lafayette College, Easton Pennsylvania. She is the author of a number of articles and the book on the twelfth-century Byzantine monument, The Church of St. Panteleimon, Nerezi; Architecture, Programme, Patronage