Portions of a Parade Armor
Item
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Title
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Portions of a Parade Armor
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Rights
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, New York. Public Domain.
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Date
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ca. 1575 C.E.
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Description
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The helmet, front plate, back plate, and tassets of a suit of parade armor. The silver armor is decorated with high-relief etchings of scenes and floral motifs. The high-relief decorations would have made this armor unfit for battle and ideal for ceremony.
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Format
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Steel, gold, silver, textile.
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Publisher
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Contributor
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Joce Dolezal
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Identifier
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 29.150.11a–f
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Subject
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Parade armor; Renaissance armor; Italian armor.
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Source
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Jpeg file. Unknown Photographer. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Digital Collection. 11/29/2023. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/23094
