id:			95824
accession number:	1916.1511
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1511
updated:		2024-03-26 01:56:14.208000

Tilting Suit (composed), c. 1560–80. South Germany, 16th century. Steel, leather straps, brass rivets; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance 1916.1511

title:				Tilting Suit (composed)
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creation date:			c. 1560–80
creation date earliest:		1555
creation date latest:		1585
current location:		210A Armor Court
creditline:			Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance
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culture:	South Germany, 16th century
technique:	steel, leather straps, brass rivets
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Arms & Armor
type:		Arms and Armor
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum
	opening date:   1991-06-07T04:00:00
	<i>Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991).

	title:		Armor Court Reinstallation
	opening date:   1998-09-10T00:00:00
	<i>Armor Court Reinstallation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Frank Gair Macomber (1849-1941), Boston, MA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?-1916
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1916-
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RELATED WORKS

	id: 		95817
	Helmet, c. 1560–80. 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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CITATIONS

	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: 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

	Cleveland Museum of Art, and Helen Ives Gilchrist. <em>Handbook of the Severance Collection of Arms and Armor</em>. 2d ed., 1948.
	page number: 	Reproduction: p. 26
	url:		https://archive.org/details/HandbookArmsArmor1948/page/n33

	Fliegel, Stephen N. <em>Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> [Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1998.
	page number: 	p. 50; cat. no. 1, p. 162
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	Olsen, Kirstin. <em>All Things Shakespeare: An Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's World.</em> Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2002.
	page number: 	p. 43
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	Fliegel, Stephen N. <em>Arms &amp; Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.
	page number: 	cat. no. 3, p. 182
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