Portcullis

<n>Bronze Statuette of a Horse and Rider</n> from Albania, c. 520–500 BC. On view at the <n>Getty Villa</n>.

<n>Viking bronze amulets</n>, c. 800-1000 AD, found in Ukraine.

Actress <n>Jean Seberg</n> in a still from <n>Otto Preminger</n>'s 1957 film <n>Saint Joan</n>. Photo by <n>Bettmann</n>.

Opera singer <n>Geraldine Farrar</n> as Elisabeth in <n>Tannhäuser</n>. Photo by <n>Léopold-Émile Reutlinger</n>, c. 1908.

A <n>German Gothic</n> <n>Gauntlet for the Left Hand</n>, ca. 1480. From the collection of <n>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</n>.

<n>Coptic woman's leather shoes</n> with gilded symbols from Egypt, c. 300-500 AD. Housed at the <n>Victoria & Albert Museum</n>.

<n>Greek gold earrings</n> from the <n>Arikawa Collection</n>, circa 400-350 B.C. Photo by <n>Albion Art Jewellery Institute</n>.

A portrait photographed by <n>Michael Newsted</n> in Silverlake.

A <n>Philippicus (Bardanes) AV Solidus</n> gold coin, minted in Constantinople between AD 711-713.

Armored gauntlets owned by Holy Roman Emperor <n>Maximilian I</n>, used from 1508 until his death in 1519.

Illustration of English armour (1450-1500) by <n>Graham Turner</n> for the <n>Osprey Publishing</n> book <n>The War of the Roses</n>.

A member of <n>Les genz d'armes</n> at <n>Les Médiévales du Château de Tiffauges</n>. Photo by <n>Barry’s Photography</n>.

A reenactor as <n>Messire Jehan de Quesnes</n> in 1420s <n>Kastenbrust armor</n>. Photo by <n>Barry’s Photography</n>.