Costumes of Landsknechte or German mercenaries (A,B), and young nobleman (C), first half of 16th century, from an old coloured illustration. They wear colourful, quilted, slashed and striped clothes, armour and codpiece. Example of actual leather shoe of the era (D,E). Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's "Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century," Frankfurt, 1889. Illustration by Dr. Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck, lithographed by C. Regnier. Dr. Hefner-Alteneck (1811 - 1903) was a German museum curator, archaeologist, art historian, illustrator and etcher.