Art Institute of Chicago
Waistcoat Cuirass
Italian; Milan
- Date
- c. 1570—c.1580
- Medium
- Steel
- Culture
- Milan
- Department
- Applied Arts of Europe
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
During the last quarter of the sixteenth century, infantry and naval officers began to wear artfully designed cuirasses (breast and backplates) that hinged open with a front seam that mimicked the doublet or waistcoat. This Italian example is decorated with slanted etched bands to look like embroidered trim as well as large rivets down the front simulating buttons. Despite its fashionable appeal, the front seam did weaken the cuirass, and soon after 1600 the fashion vanished.
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- Object type
- AAT300209266
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