Breast and Backplates from a Maximilian Armor (c.1510–30): Art, History and Details

Breast and Backplates from a Maximilian Armor (c.1510–30) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Distinguished by its regularly fluted surfaces, armor in this style was popularized in South Germany during the early 1500s. The style is usually called "Maximilian," as it was introduced during the reign of Emperor Maximilian I (1493–1519). The style reflects male costume of the period and the shift to the new rounded forms of the Renaissance.

Object facts

• Title: Breast and Backplates from a Maximilian Armor
• Date: c.1510–30
• Culture: Germany, Nuremberg(?), early 16th century
• Type: Arms and Armor
• Technique: steel, brass rivets
• Collection: MED - Arms & Armor
• Department: Medieval Art
• Accession number: 1916.1640

Collection credit

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance

Further reading listed by the museum

• Gilchrist, Helen Ives. A Catalogue of the Collection of Arms & Armor Presented to the Cleveland Museum of Art by Mr. and Mrs. John Long Severance; 1916-1923. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1924.

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