page_title: Cuirass
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Cuirass / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: An Ancient Greek cuirass. Español: Una coraza griega.
context_page_description: A cuirass is a piece of armor that is formed of a single or multiple pieces of metal or other rigid material which covers the torso. The use of the term "cuirass" generally refers to both the chest plate and the back piece together. Whereas a chest plate only protects the front and a back plate only protects the back, a cuirass protects both the front and the back.
context_section_description: In Hellenistic and Roman times, the musculature of the male torso was idealized in the form of the muscle cuirass or "heroic cuirass" (in French the cuirasse esthétique) sometimes further embellished with symbolic representation in relief, familiar in the Augustus of Prima Porta and other heroic representations in official Roman sculpture. As parts of the actual military equipment of classic antiquity, cuirasses and corsets of bronze, iron, or some other rigid substance were used. Secondary protection for the breast was worn in earlier times by men-at-arms in addition to mail hauberks and reinforced coats.  It was not until the 14th century that the plate armor became an established part of medieval armor.
caption: An Ancient Greek bronze cuirass, dated	between 620 and 580 BC
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