Muscle cuirass
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In classical antiquity, the muscle cuirass, anatomical cuirass, or heroic cuirass is a type of cuirass made to fit the wearer's torso and designed to mimic an idealized male human physique. It first a
Greek bronze panoply with muscle cuirass from Southern Italy, 340–330 BC.
Muscle cuirasses on a vase from Apulia (c. 325 BC)
The Doryphoros of Polykleitos
Gorgoneion on an Athena Parthenos
Augustus of Prima Porta
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The Augustus of Prima Porta is a full-length portrait statue of Augustus, the first Roman emperor.
Muscle cuirass
…personified represent the emperor as master of the world. Symbolic arrangements this elaborate never appear on Greek cuirasses. The cuirass on the famous Augustus of Prima Porta is particularly ornate. In the center, a Roman officer is about to receive a Roman military standard (aquila) from a bearded "barbarian" who appears…
Augustus of Prima Porta
Version of the statue in 1870 with a staff in his left hand
Unpainted and painted replica of the statue (part of the Gods in Colour exhibition)
Detail of the breastplate