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>>1569 Italian cavaliere
>>>armor
Subjectcavaliere knight
Culture: Renaissance Italian
Setting: Italy 16thc
Objectarmatura armor



​​Arlington Museum of Art > A Knight's Tale *
"Suit of Armor  Italian manufacture (Lombardy)  
ca. 1540-1550 Steel, wood, leather, linen, silk
This type of armor, constructed by horizontal lames (or laminae), is also referred to as anime.
  The name is derived from old breastplates articulated in the same way that were worn under a leather doublet or jacket during the 1300s
 -- a type of predecessor to the modern bulletproof vest.  The mobility of the prototype was completely lost in the models of the 1500s.
  All of the lames were riveted together, impeding almost any movement by the wearer."

* National Gallery of Art > West Building
​"PROBABLY MILANESE  
'The Morosini Helmet' (visored burgonet)
​probably 1550/1560  
iron or steel, repoussé, embossed, with gilding and silvering" .,,  







* National Gallery of Art > West Building
​"GIOVANNI PAOLO NEGROLI  Milanese, active 1525/1565  Helmet (burgonet) in the Form of a Dolphin Mask  
1540/1545  iron or steel, repoussé, embossed, and chiseled" ...





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* Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology > Love and War: The Weaponized Woman







* Metropolitan Museum of Art > Stone Gallery of Arms & Armor
"Armor of Giovanni Battista del Monte
Steel, etched and partly gilt
Italian (possibly Brescia), 
about 1590
Del Monte (1521-1614) was a mercenary soldier who at various times served the emperor, the pope, the kings of Spain and France, and the Venetian Republic.  This armor dates from del Monte's service to Venice as captain general of infantry and was probably made in Brescia, an armormaking center then under Venetian control.
"The armor is notable for its elegantly pointed helmet with a steel plume and for the etched and gilt decoration in imitation of a textile pattern.  Overall decoration of this kind was especially fashionable in the period from 1590 to 1610.  A portrait of del Monte in the Museo Stibbert, Florence, shows this armor with its arms and gauntlets, now missing."









* Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art > Permanent Collections
"Suit of Armor with Shield and Halberd
Vincenzo Zenon
silver, 1446 [?]  ...
Much of what we know about this armor comes from three inscriptions that tell us who made it, when it was made, and where it was made.  If you look on the upper right corner of the shield you can find one of them hidden in the midst of other engravings.
"It says, 'Vincenzo Zenon fare a 1446 [?] Venezin S Silvestro Ne 958.'  The engravings that cover this suit may have been the work of more than one craftsman under the supervision of a master, in this case Zenon.  This was the way that most of the shops that created armor like this functioned at the time.
"The shield also has a winged lion on the top that is the attribute of St. Mark, the patron saint of Venice."












​* Hermitage > Pйцaрский Эaл