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Made under the influence of the Louvre school, about 1570, but most probably the work of Heinrich Knopf of Münster. Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan

Stockholm suit which, as we have said, in our opinion comes from the hand of the armourer who made the Louvre suit. This resemblance then, taken in conjunction with the fact that the decorations of this armour and of the Louvre suit are almost identical, points fairly to the conclusion that this particular horse harness was intended to accompany the suit now in the Louvre. While we are speaking of saddle steels and horse armour of this superlatively enriched nature, we would suggest that the superb set of saddle steels (Fig. 1097) now preserved in the library of the Ambrosiana at Milan, which, as far as we are able to find out, were formerly in the famous collection of Manfredo Settala, a collection brought together in the first quarter of the XVIIth century and then housed at the Via Pantano, Milan, were produced under the influence of what we may term the Louvre school of design, though