This armor reproduces in steel the extravagant puffed and slashed costume of the German Landsknechte (mercenary infantry troops). The matching pieces are preserved in the Musée de l'Armée, Paris. Coming from the Radziwill armory in Nesvizh in present-day Belarus, this armor may have been made for Jerzy Herkules Radziwill (1480–1541), a powerful Polish nobleman.
Portions of a Costume Armor
Armorer: Kolman Helmschmid (German, Augsburg 1471–1532)
Date: ca. 1525
Geography: Augsburg
Culture: German, Augsburg
Medium: Steel, gold
Dimensions: H. 27 in. (68.6 cm); W. 18 in. (45.7 cm)
Classification: Armor for Man
Credit Line: Backplate and rump: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1924; vambraces: Mrs. Stephen V. Harkness Fund, 1926; top lames of vambraces: Bashford Dean Memorial Collection, Funds from various donors, 1929
Accession Number: 24.179; 26.188.1, .2; 29.158.363a, b
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