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  • image SM volume 115/161ae

Reference number

SM volume 115/161ae

Purpose

Drawing 5 (second row, right): Helmet with horns

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 schematically depicted burgonet (drawn c.1515) has a peak with horns that rather resembles a cow’s head but with its muzzle transformed into foliate decoration. The flange at the back does not project and there is no ear guard, while the skull is adorned at the front with a face seemingly surrounded by petals, at the back with fluting or gadrooning, and on the top by a boss.

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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