Composed Armor

Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia Spanish
 Left pauldron made by Raymond Bartel French

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 373

This armor was restored and assembled into this configuration in the 1920s. Several rare pieces of it cam from a large find of medieval armor discovered in 1840 in the ruins of the fortress of Chalcis, on the Greek island of Euboea (then a Venetian colony called Negroponte). The fortress had been captured and destroyed by the Turks in 1470. Now divided largely between the Ethnological Museum, Athens, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Chalcis hoard contains many rare and unusual elements of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century armor. Of particular importance are the variety of headpieces and the many fragments of brigandines (armor for the torso constructed of small plates riveted to layers of fabric), some of which retain portions of their original velvet covering. The Chalcis armor provides a unique picture of the armament used in the Aegean, one of the easternmost military outposts of the Venetian empire.

Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian

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Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian
Composed Armor, Left tasset made by Julian Arrechia (Spanish, active in New York late 19th–early 20th century), Steel, copper alloy (latten), leather, Italian

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