We come now to the work of the great rivals of the Colmans--the Negrolis of Milan. The suit A139 (plate 31) was made for the Emperor in 1539, and is at once distinguished from the German suits by the bands crossing the body horizontally instead of vertically. It was originally blackened, so as to show up the gold and silver of the decoration. The morion is beautifully decorated. Over the skull-piece, and parallel with a beautiful laurelled comb, run two wide bands of gold damascening that meet over the brow in a fantastic face in relief, surrounded by acanthus leaves and volutes; the visor is also damascened. The borders of the helmet are similarly enriched. In gold relief are the letters, PHILIPPVS IACOBI ET FRATR NEGROLI FACIEBANT MDXXXIX. The cheek-pieces are decorated with small lions’ heads. The breast and backplates were adorned with images of the Virgin and St. Barbara--the latter now missing. The pauldrons, coudes, and genouillères are very tastefully embossed, and inlaid with lions’ heads, scrolls, and beautiful foliations, the decoration showing up well on the plain ground. The helmet has a reinforcing piece or coif (A140) shaped like a serpent with scales of gold, and with damascened rosettes--a fine piece of work. Another fine specimen of Italian make, the artificer of which is unknown, is the Foot Armour, A147. This was erroneously attributed at one time to the Marques de Villafranca. It exhibits exquisite designs in gold azziminia. “Its original style,” remarks the Conde de Valencia, “partakes at once of the classic Pompeian and the Oriental, and does not follow the _plateresco_, prevalent at that time; and the whole suit is distinguished from the makes of Milan and Augsburg by uniting the richness of parade armour with the smoothness and toughness required for war.” Note the elegant plume-holder in the shape of an Imperial Eagle, with the arms of Castile inlaid; and the light backplate, in the form of a St. Andrew’s Cross, to be worn over a coat of mail. The armour worn by Charles V. in the unfortunate expedition to Algiers is shown under the numbers A149-A156. Many pieces are missing. The pieces composing the first suit do not call for special description. Jambs, with coverings of mail for the feet, are worn according to the fashion common in Spain. As in the preceding suits of the same epoch, the genouillères can hardly be considered as separate pieces, the laminated cuisses being continued down to the jambs (plate 33).