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A breastplate or chestplate is a device worn over the torso to protect it from injury, as an item of religious significance, or as an item of status. European
Late medieval gothic plate armour with list of elements. The slot in the helmet is called an occularium. This list identifies various pieces of body armour worn from the medieval to early modern period in the Western world, mostly plate but some mail armour, arranged by the part of body that is protected and roughly by date.
Bronze muscle cuirass, Italy, c. 350–300 BC. Partial plate armour, made out of bronze, which protected the chest and the lower limbs, was used by the ancient Greeks, as early as the late Bronze Age.
Cuirass worn by a Carabinier-à-Cheval. A cuirass (/ k w ɪ ˈ r æ s, k j ʊəˈr æ s / kwirr-ASS, kure-ASS; [1] French: cuirasse; Latin: coriaceus) is a piece of armour that covers the torso, formed of one or more pieces of metal or other rigid material.
The type of dō that originally came with a matched suit of armour defined the name for that particular suit of armour, for example, a suit of armour that came with a hotoke would be called a hotoke dō gusoku; a suit of armour that came with a karuta tatami dō would be called a karuta tatami dō gusoku.
Achilles wearing his armor. Armor of Achilles, created by Hephaestus and said to be impenetrable. (Greek mythology)Armor of Beowulf, a mail shirt made by Wayland the Smith.(Anglo-Saxon mythology)
Gorget in a full suit of armour. In the High Middle Ages, when mail was the primary form of metal body armour used in Western Europe, the mail coif protected the neck and lower face.
Schott-Sonnenberg Style of Armour (worn with sallet and gothic gauntlets). Early types of Maximilian armour with either no fluting or wolfzähne (wolf teeth) style fluting (which differs from classic Maximilian fluting) and could be worn with a sallet are called Schott-Sonnenberg style armour by Oakeshott. [4]