{"data": {"id": 97032, "accession_number": "1916.684", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Gothic Breastplate, c. 1540. Germany. Steel; overall: 32.4 x 31.4 cm (12 3/4 x 12 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance, 1916.684", "current_location": "210A Armor Court", "title": "Gothic Breastplate", "creation_date": "c. 1540", "creation_date_earliest": 1535, "creation_date_latest": 1545, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["Germany"], "technique": "steel", "support_materials": [], "department": "Medieval Art", "collection": "MED - Arms & Armor", "type": "Arms and Armor", "measurements": "Overall: 32.4 x 31.4 cm (12 3/4 x 12 3/8 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 0.324, "height_inch": 12, "height_inch_fraction": 0.75, "width": 0.314, "width_inch": 12, "width_inch_fraction": 0.375}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 190103, "title": "Armor Court Reinstallation", "description": "<i>Armor Court Reinstallation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).", "opening_date": "1998-09-10T00:00:00"}], "legacy": [{"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art (09/10/1998); \"Armor Court Reinstallation\"", "opening_date": "1998-09-10T00:00:00"}]}, "provenance": [{"description": "Marquis de Belleval et de Licques", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": null, "sortorder": null}, {"description": "Frank Gair Macomber (1849-1941), Boston, MA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "-1916", "sortorder": 2}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1916-", "sortorder": 3}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "If you are looking for this in the armor court make sure to look up; it is displayed as part of a panoply, or display with other arms.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "A breastplate is an element of armor that protects the chest and abdomen; it would have been worn with a now missing backplate. Nuremburg was one of the chief armor production centers and gained international renown; armor produced there was exported throughout Europe. It was not a coincidence that Nuremburg was known for its armor. The ore available in the region made Nuremburg an iron producing center close to the raw material needed to make a better quality and reliable product.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60779251"], "internet_archive": []}, "citations": [{"citation": "<em>Catalogue of Arms and Armour.</em> [Boston, Massachusetts]: [Frank Gair Macomber], 1900.", "page_number": "cat. 343", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CatArmsArmour1/page/n219/mode/2up"}, {"citation": "H\u00f4tel des Ventes, Beauvais. <em>Catalogue des armes &amp; armures, habit de Mestre de Camp composant la collection de M. le Marquis de Belleval et de Licques. </em>Jan 21-23, 1901. Lot 17.", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 9, lot 17", "url": "https://archive.org/details/Belleval/page/n15"}, {"citation": "Gilchrist, Helen Ives. <em>A Catalogue of the Collection of Arms &amp; Armor Presented to the Cleveland Museum of Art by Mr. and Mrs. John Long Severance; 1916-1923.</em> Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1924.", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 62, C5", "url": "https://archive.org/details/SeveranceCollection1924/page/n88"}, {"citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N. Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1998.", "page_number": "162, cat. no. 9", "url": null}, {"citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N. Arms &amp; Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.", "page_number": "183, cat. no. 21", "url": null}], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.684", "images": {"annotation": null, "web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.684/1916.684_web.jpg", "width": "717", "height": "900", "filesize": "237944", "filename": "1916.684_web.jpg"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.684/1916.684_print.jpg", "width": "2710", "height": "3400", "filesize": "2393643", "filename": "1916.684_print.jpg"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.684/1916.684_full.tif", "width": "3641", "height": "4568", "filesize": "49921264", "filename": "1916.684_full.tif"}}, "alternate_images": [{"web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.684/1916.684_alt0_web.jpg", "width": "712", "height": "893", "filesize": "395497"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.684/1916.684_alt0_print.jpg", "width": "2710", "height": "3400", "filesize": "6404691"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.684/1916.684_alt0_full.tif", "width": "3641", "height": "4568", "filesize": "49917496"}, "date_created": "2010-10-22T18:42:24", "annotation": ""}], "creditline": "Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. 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