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Drawing 3 (second row, left): Helmet ornamented with wings
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Reference number
SM volume 115/161ac
Purpose
Drawing 3 (second row, left): Helmet ornamented with wings
Aspect
View of side
Scale
Not known
Signed and dated
- c.1515
Datable to c.1515
Medium and dimensions
Pen and brown ink
Hand
Bernardo della Volpaia
Notes
This drawing of a burgonet is one of eight from c.1515 on the lower portion of the sheet that are all much smaller and more rudimentary than the two at the top. It outlines the principal components of the helmet’s with only minimal detail but shows that it has small peak and a rear flange extending to the sides to protect the ears. Its most distinctive features are on the skull, where a series of stacked convex-profiled hoops diminish in size towards the crown, with a rosette shown below them from which a wing springs, like the distantly related rosette and wings seen in Leonardo da Vinci’s drawing of a warrior in the British Museum (Popham 1946, p. 107).
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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