Field Armor in Maximilian Style

c. 1510–15

Medium
fluted steel with leather straps
Classification
Arms and Armor
Dimensions
Overall: 170.2 cm (67 in.)
Culture
Germany, possibly Augsburg
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art, Medieval Art
Credit line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Rights
Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

View at the Cleveland Museum of Art

About this work

Most of the elements of this armor were made together, forming a single suit. The lower legs contain some modern restorations. The helmet is believed to be the work of the esteemed Augsburg armorer, Lorenz Helmschmied, who was active at the Habsburg, Mantua, and Urbino courts between 1467 and his death in 1515.