A composite full armour with closed helmet dating: about 1580 provenance: Italy, Helmet with skull in one piece. Medium comb (a couple of old repairs inside, almost invisible from outside), with twisted border. Fine, good pointed visor (later) with long eyelets and a series of ventilation holes on both sides. Antique beaver. Nape-guard and neck-guard both with two plates, decorated en suite, with remains of outlines and recessed and file-roped twisted border; a row of iron rivets, a brass plume-holder on the back. Three-plated gorget on both back-pieces, with festooned borders and neckline with a thick, twisted rope. Breast-plate ribbed in the center, with prominent belly (small repair at the tip), provided with neckline and gusset with a thick rope, borders with outline; moulded projections around the neckline. Five-plated tassets with an outline above, lower border with twisted rope. Brassards with hemmed borders, decorated with notches, pauldrons with relieved curls. Back-plate decorated en suite with the pauldrons. Knuckle-shield with complete articulated guantlets, cuffs with a fine rope, well relived on the edge with a recessed band, another big rope on the plate of the knuckles. Full-leg defense with a decoration similar to the breast-plate, ribbed in the center and with file-roped and twisted borders, knee-cops with small wings. Restored leather strings. Mounted on a fine, wooden mannequin with articulated arms and with a pedestal. Elegant armour and, although composite, assembled with taste. All the elements of the right proportions. height as shown circa 200 cm.