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Artist
- Name:
- Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène Emmanuel
- Dates:
- 1814-1879
- Country:
- France
Illustration
- Subject:
- Science & technology
- Technique:
- Wood engraving
- Engraver:
- Diolot, Jean Baptiste Édouard
- Format:
- Portrait (taller)
- Source:
- Robarts Library, the Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- Dictionnaire raisonné du mobilier français de l'époque carlovingienne à la Renaissance, vol. 2
- Author(s):
- Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène Emmanuel
- Publisher:
- Paris: Vve A. Morel et Cie., 1874
- Open Library:
- View record.
Description
Sallet and cuirass of a Rennzeug suit of armor. The mechanism shown in B—here protected by a leather padding—pushed the outer breastplate D away from the jouster when it was released by the opponent’s lance.
Keywords: 1870s, 19th century, armor, black & white, medieval, reference book