Spear for the Bodyguard of Emperor Ferdinand I

Austrian

1558

Medium

Steel, iron, and wood

Classification

Arms

Dimensions

Blade L. 34.3 cm (13 1/2 in.) Wt. 3 lb. 7 oz.

Culture

Austria

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago, Applied Arts of Europe

Credit line

George F. Harding Collection

Rights

Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.

Who can see it

Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

View at the Art Institute of Chicago

• History
• 1500s
• Austria
• Black, white and grey