Cuirass and Pauldrons for a Papal Swiss Guard

1590; decoration 1623/44

Italian, Brescia

Status: On View, Gallery 239
Department: Applied Arts of Europe

Title: Cuirass and Pauldrons for a Papal Swiss Guard
Place: Brescia (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1580–1605
Medium: Steel, gilding, brass, copper, leather, and velvet textile
Dimensions: H. 48.1 cm (17 in.) Wt. (breastplate): 4 lb. 12 oz. Backplate: 2 lb. 4 oz. Left pauldron: 2 lb. 2 oz. Right pauldron: 2 lb. 4 oz. Total: 11 lb. 6 oz.
Credit Line: George F. Harding Collection
Reference Number: 1982.2243a-d
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Walter Karchieski, “Arms and Armor in the Art Institute of Chicago” (Art Institute of Chicago/Little, Brown, and Company, 1995), p. 68 (ill.)

Not on exhibition in Harding Museum, Nov. 1975.

George F. Harding, Jr. (died 1939), Chicago; bequeathed to the George F. Harding Museum, Chicago; transferred to the Art Institute, 1982.

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