"Waistcoat" Cuirass (Combined Breast and Backplates)
https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1721
This cuirass is a specialized type of costume armor. In addition to protecting its owner's torso, it was clearly intended to simulate a civilian jacket, or doublet, with a row of buttons down the front. The owner would have opened it like an ordinary doublet since the two halv...
Artifact
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95984
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en
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wikidata
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"Q60761486"
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import
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accession
1916.1721
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Source image fields (4)
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Terms
Culture
North Italy, 16th century
Technique
Steel; brass rivets simulating buttons
Genre
Arms and Armor
Department
Medieval Art
Relations
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