Cleveland Museum of Art

Gothic Breastplate

Date

c. 1485

Medium

steel

Culture

South Germany or Austria

Department

Medieval Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

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. This breastplate consists of two primary plates of steel fastened at the center by a rivet.

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