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Breastplate from Hussar's Cuirass
The collection record classifies this work as arms and armor. It is dated c. 1580. Recorded culture or place: Germany, Augsburg or Hungary, 16th century.
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- Museum title
- Breastplate from Hussar's Cuirass
- Date
- c. 1580
- Culture / origin
- Germany, Augsburg or Hungary, 16th century
- Materials and technique
- Steel (originally blued, now russet), etched and gilded strapwork bands;
- Dimensions
- Overall: 42.3 x 35 cm (16 5/8 x 13 3/4 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1916.1521
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
This style of breastplate, with its numerous articulating lames, was probably used by a Hungarian hussar, a type of light cavalryman. The steel plates were originally blued-now turned russet-and etched and gilded with strapwork bands. The rows of vertical holes once provided gilt-brass settings for stones or glasspaste jewels. The effect would have suggested the semi-oriental costume and armor of the Near East favored by Polish and Hungarian armies of the late Renaissance.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance · CC0
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