Whole composite armour, in the Maximilian fashion

An image of Armour. Whole composite armour, for field or cavalry use, decorated with fluting in the Maximilian fashion. Consisting of an armet, a collar, a breast plate with skirt and tassets, a backplate with skirt, a pair of spaudlers and vambraces, a pair of gauntlets, a pair of cuisses and polyens, and a pair of greaves and sabatons. Production Place: South Germany. All dated around 1510-20, except the pair of gauntlets which are probably 19th century, but in the style of about 1510-20.
Horse armour: M.11-13-1947. Peytral, shaffron, and saddle with steels and stirrups, for heavy cavalry use. Decorated with fluting in the 'Maximilian' fashion.

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Armour. Whole composite armour, for field or cavalry use, decorated with fluting in the Maximilian fashion. Consisting of an armet, a collar, a breast plate with skirt and tassets, a backplate with skirt, a pair of spaudlers and vambraces, a pair of gauntlets, a pair of cuisses and polyens, and a pair of greaves and sabatons. Production Place: South Germany. All dated around 1510-20, except the pair of gauntlets which are probably 19th century, but in the style of about 1510-20. Horse armour: M.11-13-1947. Peytral, shaffron, and saddle with steels and stirrups, for heavy cavalry use. Decorated with fluting in the 'Maximilian' fashion.

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Accession Number: M.1.1A-H-1936
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/16.0
Focal length: 70
Camera: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 673 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 570.06kB
Exposure time: 25/10
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 16/1
Captured: 2008:10:14 17:33:20

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16th Century 19th Century animal animals armet armour barding (horse) breastplate cavalry chamfron collar composite cuirass cuisses equestrian Fitz_AA fluted fluting gauntlets German greaves horseback horseman horses knight lance Maximilian Maximilian I metalwork military mounted polyens Renaissance sabaton saddle seated shaffron sitting soldiers solleret spaulders steel suit of armour tassets vambrace

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