Explore: Cuirasses In Art

illustrated cuirasses worn by gods and emperors in Roman statues usually incorporate realistic nipples and the navel within the scene depicted. The cuirasses were

(Corazzieri) Corps all wore cuirasses as part of their mounted full dress in the early 20th century. The retention of cuirasses as part of their field uniform

Ancient Greek art is the visual and applied arts, as well as the architecture, produced by the Hellenes or Greek peoples from the start of the Iron Age

Funerary art is any work of art forming, or placed in, a repository for the remains of the dead. The term encompasses a wide variety of forms, including

(kumihimo) used to connect the individual scales (kozane) of these cuirasses. In the 16th century, Japan began trading with Europe, during what would

The Ksour Essef cuirass is an ancient triple-disc cuirass found in a Punic tomb in 1909 not far from Ksour Essef, Tunisia. This piece of armour, generally

Art in bronze and brass dates from remote antiquity. These important metals are alloys, bronze composed of copper and tin and brass of copper and zinc

imitation was taken by art historians as indicating a narrowness of the Roman artistic imagination, but, in the late 20th century, Roman art began to be reevaluated

used to connect the individual scales (kozane) which these cuirasses were now being made from. In the 16th century Japan began trading with Europe during

found at Mycenae and Troy. In May 1960 Swedish archaeologists discovered the earliest example of a beaten bronze cuirass at Dendra, dated at the end