Field Armor
This fluted armor is typical of the battle dress of the knightly cavalry of southern Germany and Austria in the 1520s. It is composed of elements from at least three very similar armors, all made in Nuremberg when fluted armor was at its peak of fashion. The armor is stamped on the pauldrons (shoulder defenses) with the mark of the city of Nuremberg, on the helmet with the letter N in a pearly circle, on the cuisses (thigh defenses) with a Gothic N, and on the right gauntlet with an unidentified maker’s mark. The left arm defense is a nineteenth-century restoration.
Artwork Details
- Title: Field Armor
- Date: ca. 1525; left arm defense, 19th century; rondels, 1923
- Geography: Nuremberg
- Culture: German, Nuremberg
- Medium: Steel, leather
- Dimensions: H. 67 in. (170.2 cm); Wt. 49 lb. (22.23 kg); Wt. of helmet 7 lb. 4 oz. (3289 g)
- Classification: Armor for Man
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1904
- Object Number: 04.3.289
- Curatorial Department: Arms and Armor
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German, Nuremberg
ca. 1525; left arm defense, 19th century; rondels, 1923
probably German
16th century
Kunz Lochner
dated 1549
German, probably Nuremberg
ca. 1500
German, Nuremberg
late 16th–mid-17th century
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