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"tombstone": "Tilting Suit (composed), c. 1560\u201380. South Germany, 16th century. Steel, leather straps, brass rivets. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance, 1916.1511",
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"title": "Tilting Suit (composed)",
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"department": "Medieval Art",
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"id": 311444,
"title": "Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum",
"description": "Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991).",
"opening_date": "1991-06-07T04:00:00"
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"id": 190103,
"title": "Armor Court Reinstallation",
"description": "Armor Court Reinstallation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).",
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"description": "Frank Gair Macomber (1849-1941), Boston, MA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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"description": "Helmet, c. 1560\u201380. Germany, Saxony, 16th century. Steel; overall: 34.5 x 32 x 22 cm (13 9/16 x 12 5/8 x 8 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance, 1916.1502",
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"description": "This armor was developed for the joust-a sporting combat between two mounted contestants. Although all of the elements of this armor date from the same period, they are not all from the same suit. This armor is thus called \"composed.\" It also shows the asymmetry of jousting armor. The participants rode along a wall-like barrier known as a \"tilt\" with their left sides facing one another. Consequently, armor on that side of the body had to be thicker. Note the large plate (grandguard) over the left shoulder for extra protection. Also, the breathing holes in the helmet were placed on the right side (farthest from an opponent's lance) to avoid injuries from splinters. The bracket attached to the right breastplate is called the lance-rest, a shock-absorbing support designed to accommodate the lance when \"couched\" under the right armpit.",
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"citation": "Gilchrist, Helen Ives. A Catalogue of the Collection of Arms & Armor Presented to the Cleveland Museum of Art by Mr. and Mrs. John Long Severance; 1916-1923. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1924.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 33-34, A12; Reproduced: Plate V, A12",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/SeveranceCollection1924/page/n42"
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Helen Ives Gilchrist. Handbook of the Severance Collection of Arms and Armor. 2d ed., 1948.",
"page_number": "Reproduction: p. 26",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/HandbookArmsArmor1948/page/n33"
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"citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N. Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1998.",
"page_number": "p. 50; cat. no. 1, p. 162",
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"citation": "Olsen, Kirstin. All Things Shakespeare: An Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's World. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2002.",
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"citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N. Arms & Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.",
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