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Cuirassier's Armor
The collection record classifies this work as arms and armor. It is dated c. 1600–20. Recorded culture or place: Austria, Graz(?), early 17th century.
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- Museum title
- Cuirassier's Armor
- Date
- c. 1600–20
- Culture / origin
- Austria, Graz(?), early 17th century
- Materials and technique
- steel (originally blued, now black); leather straps
- Dimensions
- Overall: 171.4 cm (67 1/2 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 2012.37
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
The cuirassier was the heavy cavalryman of the late 1500s and early 1600s. Carrying pistols and a sword, he was clad in full armor, like this suit, with the exception of his lower legs, which were protected by heavy riding boots. Shortly after 1650, such heavy cavalry armor disappeared from use. By then, European cavalries had abandoned full armor as impractical against the increased sophistication of firearms. Similar armors survive in the Armory of Graz, Austria.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund · CC0
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