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品名（中）	铁甲
品名（英）	Cuirassier Armor
入馆年号	2002年，2002.130a–p
策展部门	武器和盔甲（Arms and Armor）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1585 - 公元 1655
创作地区	原产国: 意大利, 米兰（Country of Origin: Italy, Milan）
分类	人类的盔甲（Armor for Man）
尺寸	高 as mounted 54 英寸 (137.2 厘米); 重 86 磅 8 盎司 (39.24 kg)
介绍（中）	这种盔甲的构造和制造是典型的胸甲骑兵背带，这种类型是在 16 世纪末为应对枪支的使用和效率的增加而开发的。枪支的出现导致装甲师增加板的厚度和重量，并用单独的加固板补充它们。在这种类型的装甲完成之前，用手枪或火枪射击以测试其对子弹的有效性，并留下子弹凹痕作为其钢强度和质量的保证。这种特殊的盔甲保留了两个带有这种凹痕的加强件，一个很少遇到的头盔碗背面的板，一个胸甲的胸襟;它以前拥有遮阳板前部的第三块板。它重达八十六磅以上，是已知最重的野战装甲之一。虽然通常符合1600年至1640年左右在整个欧洲佩戴的胸甲骑兵马具的构造，但这个例子更具意大利北部（米兰或布雷西亚）工艺的特征。装甲的重量，其加固板和深的"证明标记"生动地提醒人们不断努力使装甲适应战术，武器和时尚的变化。
介绍（英）	The construction and build of this armor are typical of a cuirassier’s harness, a type developed toward the end of the sixteenth century in response to the growing use and efficiency of firearms. The advent of firearms caused armorers to increase the thickness and weight of plates and to supplement them with separate reinforcing plates. Before an armor of this type was finished, it was fired at with a pistol or musket to test its effectiveness against bullets, and the bullet dents were left as a guarantee of the strength and quality of its steel. This particular armor retains two reinforces with such dents, a rarely encountered plate for the back of the helmet bowl, and a plackard for the breastplate; it formerly possessed a third plate for the front of the visor. Weighing more than eighty-six pounds, it is one of the heaviest field armors known. Although generally conforming to the construction of cuirassier harnesses worn throughout Europe about 1600 to 1640, this example is more characteristic of northern Italian (Milan or Brescia) workmanship. The armor’s weight, its reinforcing plates, and the deep “proof marks” provide a vivid reminder of the constant struggle to adapt armor to changes in tactics and weaponry as well as fashion.