490818 Breastplate from hussar\'s cuirass, c.1580 (etched & gilded steel) by German School, (16th century); 42.3x35 cm; Cleveland Museum of Art, OH, USA; (add.info.: This style of breastplate from Augsburg or Hungary, with its numerous articulating lames, was probably used by a Hungarian hussar, a type of light cavalryman. The steel plates were originally blued (now turned russet) and etched and gilded with strapwork bands. The rows of vertical holes once provided gilt-brass settings for stones or glasspaste jewels. The effect would have suggested the semi-oriental costume and armour of the Near East favored by Polish and Hungarian armies of the late Renaissance.); Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance; German, out of copyright.