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Pair of Tassets (Thigh Defenses) Belonging to an Armor for Field and Tournament Made for Duke Nikolaus "The Black" Radziwill (1515–1565), Duke of Nesvizh and Olyka, Prince of the Empire, Grand Chancellor and Marshal of Lithuania
Kunz Lochner
- Medium
- Steel, gold, paint
- Dimensions
- right tasset (a): H. 6 in. (15.2 cm); W. 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm); Wt. 1 lb. 5 oz. (587 g); left tasset (b): H. 7 1/2 in. (19 cm); W. 8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm); Wt. 1 lb. 10 oz. (726 g)
- Culture
- German, Nuremberg
- Department
- Arms and Armor
- Classification
- Armor Parts-Thigh and Leg Defense
- Dated
- ca. 1555; probably repainted later
- Pixels
- 3811 × 3049
- SHA-256
- 4bb693d887240012…
- Record
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License, verbatimCC0
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Kunz Lochner. Pair of Tassets (Thigh Defenses) Belonging to an Armor for Field and Tournament Made for Duke Nikolaus "The Black" Radziwill (1515–1565), Duke of Nesvizh and Olyka, Prince of the Empire, Grand Chancellor and Marshal of Lithuania, ca. 1555; probably repainted later. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.