Porter l'armure en France XVIe siècle

• Autores: Olivier Renaudeau
• Localización: Revue de l'art, ISSN 0035-1326, Nº. 174, 2011, págs. 77-82
• Idioma: francés
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• Resumen

  • Above all a functional gear, and even rigorously ergonomic, even when it was intended for children, armor was nevertheless subject to the whims of fashion. From the middle of the 15th century, Tours was the capital of French armor, but this production, less abundant than that of the Milanese workshops, moved to Lyons, and then, especially, to Paris, where, beginning in the 1530s, some thirty workshops existed. There were numerous Milanese artisans among the Parisian armorers, but in the mid-16th century, a French school of armor emerged, emancipated from the Lombard models. Their armor can be recognized by its silhouette and by the very carefully executed decoration, which involved veritable teams of goldsmiths, gilders, engravers, and damasceners, as well as painters in charge of inventing the ornamentation. During the same period, the development of tooled and chased, decorated harnesses, hardly compatible with activities tied to either war or sport, brought about a division between the armor exclusively dedicated to ostentation and the functional equipment. Because of the proliferation of firearms, these latter necessarily increased in weight and became esthetically decadent, as can be demonstrated by the somber "corassiers" armor of the first half of the 17th century.