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steellegacy · 9 months

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⚜️ Cuirass and Tassets (Torso and Hip Defense), ca. 1510–1520

Medium: Steel, leather

Dimensions:

Height - 105.4 cm

Weight - 8845 g

Armorer: Attributed to Kolman Helmschmid (German, Augsburg 1471–1532)

Decorator: Etching attributed to Daniel Hopfer (German, Kaufbeuren 1471–1536)

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The decoration of this armor is an outstanding example of German figural etching. The etching has been attributed to Daniel Hopfer, a noted printmaker and armor etcher. Hopfer may have pioneered the technique of making prints from an etched metal plate, which revolutionized printmaking in the sixteenth century.

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The figures on the breastplate depict major Christian saints and include the Virgin and Child flanked by Saint George and Saint Christopher. On the backplate, Saint Anne with the Virgin and Child is flanked by Saint James the Great and Saint Sebastian. The figure of Saint Sebastian pierced by arrows is copied from a woodcut made about 1507 by Hans Baldung Grien (1484 or 1485–1544).

🏛️ The Met

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⚜️ Кираса и тассеты (защита туловища и бедер), около 1510–1520 г.

Материалы: сталь, кожа

Размеры:

Высота - 105,4 см

Вес - 8845 г

Изготовление приписывается Коломану Кольману (Кольман Хельмшмид), Аугсбург (1471–1532)

Декораторативные элементы приписываются Даниэлю Хопферу (Кауфбойрен, 1471–1536)

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Украшение этого доспеха является выдающимся образцом немецкого фигурного травления. Травлёный рисунок приписывается Даниэлю Хопферу, известному граверу и декоратору доспехов. Хопфер, возможно, был основоположником в технике изготовления отпечатков с травленой металлической пластины, которая произвела революцию в гравюре в XVI в.

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Фигуры на нагруднике изображают главных христианских святых, в том числе Деву Марию с младенцем в окружении святых Георгия и Христофора. На оборотной стороне изображена Святая Анна с Девой Марией и младенцем по бокам от святого Иакова Великого и святого Себастьяна. Фигура святого Себастьяна, пронзенного стрелами, скопирована с гравюры на дереве, выполненной около 1507 года Хансом Бальдунгом Грином (1484/1485-1544).

🏛️ Метрополитен-музей, США

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possumcollege · 1 year

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Why donn'st thou so shapely a cuirass, milord? To compel the hands of yon menne to encircle it? Slattern.

#armor #cuirass #gothic armor #dinosaur sheriff #possumcollege

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jlmichigan · 1 year

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OUT OF THE CUIRASS

Warning: My first fanfic attempt, please be gentle. Soft smut read at your own risk, episode 8 ending left me with a question I had to answer...

~set just after Willow episode 1x08~

The city gates behind them, they paused for a moment, looking to the horizon. Only way out was back to the water, back the way they came. They would have to figure the rest out from there.

Hearing a soft metal clanking beside her, Jade glanced over to see Kit self consciously smoothing her new chain/plate armor down her trim waist. She let her eyes travel down past Kit's hands, to where the armor hugged her deliciously curved bottom in a way Kit's leather trousers never had. "Mmmh". The sound escaped her lips before she could stop it.

"What?" Kit glanced back at her. Jade could only smile helplessly. A warm tingle lit in her belly at the way the Cuirass outlined every curve and valley of Kit's athletic frame. As many times as she had admired her friend's body, mostly in stolen glances while Kit rambled on about the next adventure she wanted to take, Kit had never looked like THIS. The tight fitting armor left little to the imagination. Her eyes started to slip back down across the suit...

"I'm gonna take it off," Kit asserted, looking back towards the horizon again. Jade's smile widened, a sudden thought of the soft skin underneath causing her cheeks to flush. "When?"

"As soon as I figure out how," Kit tugged a finger at the collar of the mail shirt.

Kit really had no idea how beautiful she was. She was fidgeting wth the armor the same way she always tugged at her gowns, as though she felt exposed in anything other than the loose manly shirts and leathers she normally chose to wear.

As the group started walking across the sand, Jade leaned in to murmur in Kit's ear, "I'm sure we can figure something out."

"Yeah? Well we better, because this thing is giving me a wedgie like you wouldn't believe". Kit hopped slightly, trying to shake the chain mail more loosely around her legs.

A sudden laugh bubbled out of Jade's mouth. She felt almost lightheaded, the loss of adrenaline leaving her shaky. How long since they'd had a good rest? Gods, and a bath. She still felt crusty from all the "camouflage" and rock dust.

"What's the plan?" she called up to where Boorman and Willow were leading the group, followed by Airc and Elora, who were talking earnestly.

"You're lucky a sorcerer plans ahead" Willow called back. "Everyone was so quick to run off the edge of the world, no one thought to bring supplies."

"Just so happens, I tied our things together with some inflated pig bladders, and sent them off the edge ahead of me. They should still be tucked safely by that big rock where I climbed up out of the water. We can rest there while we plan how to get back"

True to his word, Willow had managed to salvage most of their meager belongings. A worn tarp they could use to get some relief from the unsetting sun. The bits of fishing tackle and catch nets they had used to procure food on the long trek across the Shattered Sea. Two cracked leather bladders for carrying water. Flint and stone, a battered tin pot. And a pouch of tough as leather eel jerky. Ugh. If they ever got back home, Jade would happily forswear any food that came from the sea, especially eel.

"Ladies, who's up for a skinny dip?" Boorman boomed, already stripping his shirt off.

"Ugh," Kit exclaimed, while Elora flushed furiously. "Uh, I don't think so."

"No one? Your loss!" Boorman shed the rest of his clothing unashamedly, then climbed the rock to dive headfirst into the swirling waters.

"Ladies, if you want to clean up, I think there are some tidal pools around that hillock" Willow stated. "Prince Airc, if you'll come with me. I want to see what you remember of the Crone. Maybe we can gain insight to plan our next encounter with the Order of the Wyrm."

True to Willow's word, there were several shallow rock pools on the other side of the ridge. They could almost not hear Boorman's whooping and splashing.

Elora stripped down to her shift and entered the closest of the pools, sighing with satisfaction as the water pulled the sand and ash from her skin.

Jade took Kit's elbow and walked them a bit further, settling on a deeper blue pool with a flat outcropping on one side. "This look alright, princess?"

"Gods yes." Kit dunked her face and hands into the water, then shook her hair out like a dog drying off.

Jade sat on the outcropping and pulled her boots off, setting them carefully aside, then reached up to start unbuckling her leather tunic.

"Here, let me." Kit plopped down next to Jade and reached for the buckles of Jade's shoulder pauldrons. As she deftly pulled the straps from their buckles, her wet hair tickled against Jade's neck. Jade shivered. They had helped each other into and out of their fighting gear countless times, but there had always been an understood distance between them. The knight-to-be and the princess. Now she wasn't sure what they were. Kit's hands gently pulled the leathers off and set them aside, leaving Jade in just a thin shirt and breeches. One of Kit's hands softly brushed the base of Jade's throat.

"What about the Cuirass, your highness?" Jade croaked, then cleared her throat.

"Um, yeah. This should be easy to figure out." Kit started patting her armor down, looking for straps and edges to pull it apart. "Hunh. Where's the... I can't find the edge of this."

Jade twisted and started running her hands over the armor as well, looking for loose pieces. Despite the combination of plate and chain mail, there seemed to be no beginning or end to the garment, it all seemed made of one piece. Jade blushed as she realized where her hands had come to rest, on the rounded front of the breast plate. Uh, literally. She pulled her hands back as if burned. Self consciously, she looked back down the coast, and saw that Elora had her back to them and was singing to herself.

"No, hey..." Kit grabbed her hands. Looking directly into Jade's eyes, she put her hands back where they ached to be, on the swell of Kit's breasts. Jade's breath caught. "That's nice." Kit's breath sounded a bit ragged too.

"Your highness..."

"Don't. I'm not anymore. Or, I won't be after we bring Elora home. She'll be the royal and I'll just be the knight protecting her. Don't you get it, you and I, we don't have to play those parts anymore. We can just be... us."

Jade stared wonderingly into Kit's eyes, starting to see the possibilities. Could that even be true? Her hands trembled.

Something moved under her right hand as a finger twitched. Suddenly, with a series of metallic clicks, the Cuirass started folding in upon itself, returning to the smaller form it had been before it was activated.

Kit's eyes got wide. "You found it!"

"Unnhh," Kit's eyes suddenly rolled back in their sockets and the life went out of her.

"KIT!!!" Jade screamed.

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"What's wrong with her?" Jade was frantic, patting at Kit's cheeks as she crouched on her knees beside her.

"Back up, I can't see." Willow lifted Kit's wrist in one hand, flattening his other across her forehead. Elora peered over as well, her red locks dripping onto Jade's shoulder and Kit's neck as she pressed in tightly against Jade. In the blur of moments after Kit fell over, Elora had fetched the sorcerer and alerted the party to Kit's distress. Jade sensed the others around them, but she only had eyes for Kit.

"You say this happened right after you deactivated the Cuirass?"

"Yeah. We didn't know how to get it off. I found the switch by accident, it's the Lux that does it."

"Elora, I don't know if you can see anything I cannot, but there doesn't seem to be any evil magic about her. I think she's just unconscious."

"I'm not sure how I would..." Elora sucked in a breath and blew it out slowly, closing her eyes and stretching both hands towards her friend and protector. "Ohhhh, there's this... Green glow thingie. It's like it's pulling some kind of energy out of Kit and drawing it into that, the flox capacitor..."

"Lux arcana" Jade supplied.

"Right. That."

"You mean it's draining her? We've got to get it off of her right now!" Jade fumbled at the straps on Kit's shoulders. The others lifted Kit's torso so Jade could slide the Cuirass off. She tossed the cursed thing to the side and gently lowered Kit back down, but the princess did not stir.

"I don't think that helped," Elora stated. "It still seems connected to her."

"I think I know what's happening," Willow interjected. "In magic, there is always a cost. Mystic artifacts, even and especially ones of great power, demand a price. In our world there must always be a balance. When that balance is upset, nature corrects."

"So you're saying she took out a power loan, and now the Cuirass has come to collect with interest?" Boorman puzzled. "Bummer."

"Eh. Something like that," Willow answered. "What powers did the Cuirass give her? From what you've all said, she had blinding fast speed, super strength, invulnerability... All while resisting the forces of darkness. That energy has to come from somewhere."

"Is she going to be all right?" Jade was desperate to know how to help her friend.

"I think so. Suffice to say, she won't be using that armor again anytime soon. A point we should consider when we plan our next encounter with the forces of darkness. I think she just needs rest, and some restorative nutrition. Elora, let's see what we can find for dinner."

"I can fish," Airk spoke up. "I'm the best at hunting and fishing. If there's something out there to catch I can find it. Here. Let's get sis back to camp, we already set up the shelter."

Jade grabbed one arm while Airk got the other, and they supported Kit's limp form between them, one arm over each of their shoulders.

"Here, I'll get your..." Elora quickly collected Jade's boots and leathers, while Boorman snagged the Cuirass with one hand and trailed behind them.

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Jade twitched as a finger started tracing her eyebrow. Her eyes cracked open to see Kit's brilliant hazel eyes mere inches from her own green ones.

She had settled Kit's unconscious form against hers with Kit's head on her shoulder as they reclined on a cloak, Jade's own head cushioned by her boots, providing what little comfort she could to her friend in this harsh terrain. The flapping tarp over their heads provided the only shade from the ever present sun. The others didn't seem to be nearby, though she could hear the crackle of a fire somewhere outside.

"How you feeling?"

"Good. I think. Thirsty."

"Hang on." Jade's free hand patted behind her until it found the bladder of water she had left there. "Here."

"Mmm." Kit half rose to a sitting position and accepted the drink, wetting her lips and then drinking deeper.

Jade let her eyes rest on the movements in Kit's neck. Thought about how it would feel to place a kiss right there, at the base of Kit's throat.

"So what happened?" Kit's voice still had a slight rasp to it.

"That damn Cuirass. Pardon my speech, your highness. Apparently it gives you all this power while you're wearing it, then sucks it all right back out of you when you turn it off."

"Hunh. Well. It was too tight anyway."

"It looked just right on you."

"Is that so?" Kit settled back against Jade, one arm draped across her chest, her eyes catching Jade's again. A roguish grin pulled at the side of her mouth. "You think I'm sexy," she teased, her eyes sparkling. One of her legs tangled in between Jade's.

"I..." Jade started to protest.

"Don't think I didn't catch you staring, madame knight. You looked like you wanted to undress me."

"Uh!" Jade tried to look indignant, then sighed and gave it up, her head knocking back against her boots, her eyes helplessly roaming across Kit's oh-so-beautiful face, the pulse at the side of her neck.

"Gods, Kit. What'm I going to do with you?"

"Well I dunno," Kit laughed, her head dipping down until her nose brushed against Jade's and her sweet warm breath puffed against Jade's lips. She half rolled onto Jade, her knee pressing up between Jade's thighs. A groan escaped her, which only made Kit laugh harder.

Her mouth lowered to brush Jade's as she whispered. "I hope... everything."

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idisaestheticblog · 17 days

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#idis' originals #photography #dark academia #light academia #romantic academia #academia aesthetic #academic aesthetic #dark academia aesthetic #gothenburg #göteborg #museum #history #sabre #historical weaponry #cuirass #armor #armour

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ladyevilmetals · 1 month

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17th C. or Later Ornate Engraved Italian Parade Cuirass Breastplate Armor. Wrought entirely of steel with fine quality engraved decorations and lengthy inscriptions on top. With hinged shoulder strap holders and iron rivets.

#17th century #armor #armour #steel armor #iron armor #engraved armor #ornate armor #antique armor #antique #italian armor #italian #breatplate #cuirass #cuirass breastplate #cuirass armor

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illustratus · 2 years

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Archangel Michael defeats Satan by Guido Reni

#archangel michael #michael #defeats #satan #angel #angels #art #painting #history #religious #guido reni #roman #military #cloak #cuirass #17th century #roman military cloak

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m3dieval · 19 hours

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15th Century Cuirass Shape/Fitting

By the noted armourer Robert "Mac" MacPherson

I cannot find the original place where these were posted, but this recently popped up in the United League of Armourers group.

#armor #armour making #15th century #cuirass #breastplate #reenactment

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armthearmour · 2 years

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A stunning Cuirass attributed to Kolman Helmschmid with etching by Daniel Hopfer,

Height: 41.5 in/105.4 cm

Weight: 19.5 lbs/8845 g

Augsburg, Germany, ca. 1510-1520, housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

#armor #armour #cuirass #europe #european #germany #german #augsburg #hre #holy roman empire #renaissance #themet #metmusuem #art #history

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theancientwayoflife · 2 years

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~ Bronze cuirass (breastplate).

Period: Classical

Date: 5th-4th century B.C.

Culture: Etruscan

Medium: Bronze

#ancient #ancient art #history #museum #archeology #ancient sculpture #ancient history #archaeology #bronze #cuirass #breastplate #armor #etruscan #classical #5th century B.C.#4th century B.C.

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chic-a-gigot · 10 months

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La Mode illustrée, no. 28, 9 juillet 1882, Paris. Toilettes de Mme Bréant-Castel, 6, rue Gluck. Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Netherlands

Description de toilettes (Bibliothèque Forney):

Robe en faille noire (jupe courte) entièrement recouverte avec de la gaze de soie noire, perlée de jais. Le bord inférieur est garni de deux hauts volants de blonde espagnole noire. Les hanches sont couvertes par une écharpe entièrement en dentelle espagnole noire, garnie de même dentelle fixée sur le côté de droite par de longs flots de rubans de satin noir. Le corsage ouvert a, sur son encolure, une ruche de dentelle blanche. Manches à gigots demi-courtes; gants noirs longs.

Robe en faille rayée et changeante, nuances beiges et bleues de plusieurs tons. La jupe est disposée devant en gros plis (tuyaux d'orgue), retenus à 5 centimètres de distance de leur bord inférieur, de façon à former une tête renversée, qui repose sur une balayeuse de cachemire bleu. Tunique composée de sept volants de cachemire bleu, brodés en soie bleue ; derrière ces volants se continuent, de façon à couvrir le lé de derrière. Corsage en faille changeante pareille à la jupe terminée derrière par un nœud très-large en même faille, sous lequel passe un autre nœud très-volumineux en faille bleue. Chapeau de paille beige doublé de bleu, orné d'une branche de roses thé.

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Dress in black faille (short skirt) entirely covered with black silk gauze, beaded with jet. The bottom edge is trimmed with two high ruffles of black Spanish blonde. The hips are covered by a scarf entirely in black Spanish lace, trimmed with the same lace fixed on the right side by long streams of black satin ribbons. The open bodice has, on its neckline, a ruffle of white lace. Half-short gigot sleeves; long black gloves.

Dress in striped and changing faille, beige and blue shades of several tones. The skirt is arranged in front in large folds (organ pipes), held back 5 centimeters from their lower edge, so as to form an upturned head, which rests on a sweeper of blue cashmere. Tunic composed of seven flounces of blue cashmere, embroidered in blue silk; behind these ruffles are continued, so as to cover the back length. Bodice in changing faille, similar to the skirt, finished behind by a very wide knot in the same faille, under which passes another very voluminous knot in blue faille. Beige straw hat lined with blue, adorned with a branch of tea roses.

#La Mode illustrée #19th century #1880s #1882 #on this day #July 9 #periodical #fashion #fashion plate #color #description #Forney #rijksmuseum #dress #stripes #bustle #cuirass

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