German) armour Italian "alla tedesca" ("a la German") armour is an Italian armour of 1500–1515 with fluting and the Maximilan breast shape. Knee-long tassets were often worn with a bellows-visored sallet. This kind of armour is considered by Oakeshott to be a kind of Schott-Sonnenberg Style armour made by Italians for the German market. Parallels with late (rounded) kastenbrust armour Such armour of the first half of the 15th century are separated by Oakeshott from kastenbrust armour as alwite armour. However, other historians consider it as a kind of kastenbrust armour. Maximilian armour and fluted armour The terms Maximiliansharnisch (Maximilian armour) and Riefelharnisch (fluted armour) have been used interchangeably. There are debates over the connection between Maximilian I and fluted armour. opines that fluted armour was only distributed after Maximilian's death and direct influence of the emperor cannot be proven. Franz Niehoff writes that the emperor did play a supporting role in the invention of the fluted armour and the term Maximiliansharnisch can be used to highlight the contribution of the Innsbruck armour makers, and the role of artists like Hans Leinberger should also be noted. Tilman Falk notes that the armour wore by a captain in Hans Burgkmair's work (1504) in the Basilica Santa Croce, classified by Weis-Liebersdorf as Maximiliansharnisch, was still in transitional phase in comparison with the later fluted armour style. Larry Silver agrees with Tilman Falk that there was an intimate connection between armour suits depicted in Maximilian's woodcut projects and the armours actually designed for him. Armour designed by the Helmschmieds for Maximilian in particular increasingly favoured a "rounder and simpler form, termed 'classical' by the historians of armor, in contrast to the angularity of the 'baroque Gothic'. Dominated by overlapping, scalelike plates and more regular patterns of decoration, these suits because increasingly regularized and evolved into the Riefelharnisch." Gallery See also Armour under the patronage of Maximilian I, in Cultural depictions of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor Gothic plate armour Greenwich armour References 16th-century establishments in the Holy Roman Empire Western plate armour Early Modern armour Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor