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>>1548 Swiss Guard
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Subject: infantry bodyguard
Culture: Italo-Swiss
Setting: Papacy 16-17thc
Object: armored costume

Higgins Armory Museum > Great Hall *
​"Armor for a Member of the Papal Guard, 1570-90  North Italian (perhaps Brescia)
Blue and engraved steel with gilding; brass; modern leather and velvet"