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Gothic Breastplate
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About this work
Individual armor elements, like this breastplate, were shaped in ways that would make their surfaces as deflecting as possible. The contours of this breastplate, along with the pronounced vertical ridge down its center, were for precisely this purpose.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineGothic Breastplate, c. 1485. South Germany or Austria. Steel; overall: 50.5 x 35.8 x 15.8 cm (19 7/8 x 14 1/8 x 6 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance, 1916.29
