The Shape of a Mans Breast: Breastplate Construction and Fashion in Sixteenth-Century Europe

Changes in the shapes of breastplates in the 16th century

Wade Allen

Tiger Team in Mosul book of fashion Henri II of France Negroli armor

Tiger Team in Mosul

Illustrates different body armor types in 2003

The First Book of Fashion

Ed. Ulinka Rublack and Maria Hayward

Bloomsbury 2023

48 Recto - 10 May 1521

Armor for Henri II of France

1540-45 by Giovanni Negroli

Image from Sotheby's 5 May 1983 Lot 44

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