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Reference number
SM volume 115/161aa
Purpose
Drawing 1 (top left): helmet with horse’s head
Aspect
View of side
Scale
Not known
Signed and dated
- c.1515
Datable to c.1515
Medium and dimensions
Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk
Hand
Bernardo della Volpaia
Notes
This uncompleted drawing (c.1515) of an elaborate ceremonial burgonet is similar to those on the other side of the sheet (Fol. 97 and flap recto/Ashby 161). The peak in this case is adorned with an animal’s head (perhaps a horse’s), like in certain examples of actual helmets such as Filippo Negroli’s in Saint Petersburg’s Hermitage Museum of 1532/35 (Pyhrr–Godoy 1998, pp. 136–46). Although the skull and crest were left unfinished, the crest’s very faint underdrawing suggests it was to be in the form of a horse, as horse-like back legs and a tail can be discerned. The flange at the back is decorated with an animal-like creature with a long neck, a foliage-sprouting body and two hind legs.
Literature
Ashby 1904, p. 73
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Codex Coner has been made possible through the generosity of the Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance, Berlin.
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