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>Costume Studies
>>1424 Italian condottiere
>>>armor
>>>>harness
Subjectcondottiere 'contractor' mercenary captain
Culture: Milanese / Lombard,other Italian
Setting: Italy 15thc
Object: armor > body harness







* Metropolitan Museum of Art > Stone Gallery of Arms and Armor
"Left and Right Gauntlets  Steel  Italian, about 1440-50
Gauntlet for the Left Hand  Steel  Italian, about 1450-60"


* Metropolitan Museum of Art > Stone Gallery of Arms and Armor
"Upper Right Vambrace and Couter (Upper Arm and Elbow Defense)  Steel  Italian (Milan), about 1450-60
Gauntlet for the Right Hand  Steel  Italian (probably Milan), about 1450-60
Right and Left Breastplates from a Brigandine  Steel, brass  Italian, about 1450  The four staples on the left breastplate are for the attachment of a lance rest."



* Metropolitan Museum of Art > Stone Gallery of Arms and Armor
"Gauntlet for the Right Hand
Steel  
Italian, 
about 1420"