Armor for the Joust

c. 1560

Northern Italian

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

Title: Armor for the Joust
Place: Northern Italy (Object made for)
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.: 1550–1590
Medium: Steel, brass, leather, and modern costume
Dimensions: H.: 160 cm (64 in.)
Credit Line: George F. Harding Collection
Reference Number: 1982.2405a-q
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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. 38 (ill.)

Special Exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, 1921.
Not on exhibition at Harding Museum, November, 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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