Top Lames of Vambraces (Arm Defenses) from a Costume Armor, ca. 1525
Top Lames of Vambraces (Arm Defenses) from a Costume Armor, ca. 1525, Augsburg, German, Augsburg, Steel, copper alloy, gold, H. 11 1/2 in. ( cm); W. 10 in. ( cm); D. 12 in. ( cm), Armor Parts, 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
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