Can anyone help me find a reference for Armor from 1504 - 1553?

by 3RR0R-32123

I’m working on a project to explain certain differences in armor throughout the ages (I’m starting with knights and hopefully moving to Vikings afterwards), I’m trying to use images as reference to help highlight said differences, the thing is, when ever I try to find a good image or even article on this specific time stamp it seems to elude me, it may not be worth the time but I’m mainly trying to close a gap in the timeline, so far I’ve been using charts that show you different armor from different time stamps, but I can’t rely on those so I also use what I can find in different books and documentaries/YouTube videos (and the occasional art piece from that time) to even out some details, but it’s this one gap that bugs me because I’ve gotten to a point where the differences become more obvious and I’m hoping I can find that point where it started to break off into sub-categories (if that’s the right term to us in this case), and I know that there are plenty of other points where armor started to look different depending on who the person wearing it fought for or what the latest revolution in its design was (going from just straight chain mail to solid plate was surprisingly painful because of how many times I had to figure it if one was a concept or not), but this is a point in time before guns start to become a factor in the design process, and I don’t want to skip over anything, especially in a 49 year gap.

(Im not sure if this violates the rules but I’ll take this down if it does.)

Gankom

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