MAKE A MEME View Large Image Decorated Parade Armour (Burgonet and Breastplate).jpg Decorated Parade Armour circa 1585 <br /> Milan Italy <br /> Lucio Marliani also known as Piccinino active about 1570-89 <br /> <br /> This parade armour comes from a series presented ...
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Keywords: BLW Decorated Parade Armour (Burgonet and Breastplate).jpg Decorated Parade Armour circa 1585 <br /> Milan Italy <br /> Lucio Marliani also known as Piccinino active about 1570-89 <br /> <br /> This parade armour comes from a series presented to the Spanish royal family in the 1580s Tailor-made parade armour was iron clothing the pointed \'peascod\' breastplate imitated fashionable doublets Draped with fine silk sashes and with helmets sprouting plumes of ostrich feathers such armour was for effect not protection Inspired by ancient Roman armour it transformed Renaissance nobles into classical heroes <br /> <br /> Probably presented in 1585 by Charles Emmanuel I Duke of Savoy to the future King Philip III of Spain <br /> <br /> Bequeathed by D M Currie<br /> <br /> Burgonet helmet Steel damascened with gold <br /> URL http //collections vam ac uk/item/O97505/burgonet/<br /> Breastplate Steel damascened with gold Remnants of leather straps <br /> URL http //collections vam ac uk/item/O97507/breastplate/ Adam Morgan Victoria and Albert Museum http //www vam ac uk/ M 189-1921 M 144-1921 http //collections vam ac uk/item/O97505/burgonet/ PD Renaissance armour
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