胸甲 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	胸甲
品名（英）	Breastplate
入馆年号	1948年，48.149.32
策展部门	武器和盔甲（Arms and Armor）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1450 - 公元 1500
创作地区	原产国: 德国（Country of Origin: Germany）
分类	装甲部件胸板（Armor Parts-Breastplates）
尺寸	高 17 1/4 英寸 (43.8 厘米); 宽 14 1/2 英寸 (36.8 厘米); 深 7 1/2 英寸 (19.1 厘米); 重 5 磅 12 盎司 (2619 g)
介绍（中）	这款胸甲由两部分组成，由四个星形铆钉固定在一起。深凹领口和臂孔有向外翻转的边框;乳房的下部有尖锐的脊状，向上扫入中央方形点，顶部有两个切口。下板的边缘与两个浅压花脊平行。腰部不见了，但有孔表明它们曾经连接过。在上乳房的上部，两个星形铆钉指示肩带曾经连接的位置。在整个十五世纪，胸甲分为两部分，以德国方式松散地铆接在一起，或者以意大利方式通过带子和带扣相互连接，以允许身体的额外移动性。胸甲——胸甲和背板——是完整"闪亮盔甲骑士"中最后添加的防弹衣元素。这并不是因为装甲师缺乏技术灵活性，因为到十四世纪中叶，板的巧妙铰接和关节臂腿防御已经完全发展起来，但骑士们似乎不愿意将他们的躯干包裹在不屈不挠的钢板中。直到十五世纪初，骑士才愿意接受禁锢胸甲。胸甲两部分之间的松散连接是一种折衷方案，通过允许少量移动使其更容易被接受。
介绍（英）	This breastplate is made from two parts, held together by four star-shaped rivets. The deeply scooped neckline and the arm-holes have outward-turned borders; the lower part of the breast is sharply ridged and sweeps up into a central squared-off point with twin cutouts at the top. The edges of the lower plate are paralleled by two shallow embossed ridges. The waist lames are missing, but holes indicate they were once attached. In the upper part of the upper breast, two star-shaped rivets indicate where shoulder straps were once attached. Throughout the fifteenth century breastplates were made in two parts, loosely riveted together in the German fashion or attached to one another by straps and buckles in the Italian fashion, to allow extra mobility of the body. The cuirass––breastplate and backplate––was the last element of body armor added to the complete "knight in shining armor." This was not for lack of technical dexterity on the part of the armorers, because skillfully articulated and jointed arm and leg defenses of plates were fully developed by the middle of the fourteenth century, but it seems to have been a reluctance of the knights to encase their torsos in unyielding plates. It was not before the beginning of the fifteenth century that knights were willing to accept the confining cuirass. The loose connection between the two sections of the breastplate was a compromise which made it more acceptable by permitting a small amount of movement.