#15th century armor

[anaconda-creates]

Gothic 15th century armor is great. These pinwheel things?

superb.

That upwards swoop they had going on with the breastplate?

elegant.

The hourglass form?

slay.

and then...

you have the sallet.

[liberty1776]

Teutonic Knight: 15th century armor

[medievalsnippets]

Source

[acrosscenturiesandgenerations]

▪︎ Helmet (Migfer) with Associated Neck Defense.

Date: ca. 1475-1525

Culture: Middle Eastern

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Helmet.

Culture: Northern Italy,Southern Germany, Austria

Date: ca. 1350 (helmet) and 15th century (helmet decoration)

Owner: Albert von Prankh

Medium: Helmet: Iron, forged, built from individual parts. Paint residue. Textile: felt. Helmet decoration: leather. Textile: linen. Chalk ground, gold leaf and silver plated. Glaze.

[liberty1776]

Late 15th century Man at Arms.

Arne Koets and Maximillian by Kaos Historical Media

[classic-art-favourites]

Saint Michael Triumphant over the Devil by Bartolome Bermejo, 1468.

[borgialucrezia]

THE BORGIAS ↴ Illustration: Juan Borgia's corpse is brought in as Rodrigo, Lucrezia and Cesare Borgia watch. Artist: Lodovico Pogliaghi  (1857–1950)

Description: Alexander VI and his children, Lucrezia and Cesare Borgia, looking at the corpse of the Duke of Gandía brought to the Vatican. Woodcut from Francesco Bertolini: Il Rinascimento e le Signorie italiane (Storia generale d'Italia, Vol. 2.), published by Treves, Milano, 1897.

[cy-lindric]

Little jeanne with a Grand Bascinet

[m3dieval]

Probably more than you ever wanted to know about 15th century armoured codpieces (a video by Arne Koets). But also a bit about groin armour in general.

[haematinon]

Created for my upcoming book Ergo Cosmos!

"The Hastebaani reached the Holy Moon after an exodus, heirs of the only lunar civilizations that survived the meteoritic cataclysm. Strangely, their martial arts and weapons seem particularly apt to deal with mechanical foes: an odd coincidence considering their antiquity."

[cuties-in-codices]

geoffroy setting fire to a monastery

illustrations for a german version of the melusine tale ("geschichte von der schönen melusina" by thüring von ringoltingen), basel, c. 1471

source: Basel, Universitätsbibl., O I 18, fol. 42v

[liberty1776]

15th century man at arms with warhammer

[daughterofchaos]

Details of San Miguel Arcángel, ca. 1495-1500, by Zafra Master

Museo Nocional del Prado

[acrosscenturiesandgenerations]

▪︎ Turban Helmet with Neck Guard of Mail and Nose Guard.

Place of origin: Türkiye (?)

Date: mid 15th-16th century

Period: Ottoman

Medium: Steel, inlaid with copper alloy, gold, and silver.

[memories-of-ancients]

Sallet decorated with gilt copper in the form of a lion, Italy, circa 1475-1480.

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art