08-09-2007, 10:58 AM
Strange. If the leather would be hard and thick enough to present the human body in the way depicted, it could hardly bent as shown in the shoulder area. Not without big pleats at least. So for me even leather would not explain the kind of the cuirass. When I look at the clumsy limbs, feet and shoes, I would say it was an artist not so well abled. So perhaps he just wanted to show a bronze muscle cuirass?
Wolfgang Zeiler