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Drawing 6 (third row, left): Helmet with side scrolls
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Reference number
SM volume 115/161af
Purpose
Drawing 6 (third row, left): Helmet with side scrolls
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 burgonet, shown in one several schematic drawings from c.1515 on the page, has a vertical peak (on the left) and in this respect is similar in composition to a helmet drawn on the recto (Fol. 97 and flap recto Drawing 7), and finds a parallel in the helmet of c.1550/55 by Filippo Negroli in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge (Pyhrr–Godoy, pp. 209–12). It has a simple flange at the back and pointed ear guards, and the skull is unadorned apart from scrolls at the sides, rather like those seen in Verrocchio’s Alexander relief, but ringed with leaves or petals, and with a protective comb on the crown in the form of a simple rib running from front to back.
Literature
Ashby 1904, p. 73
Level
Drawing
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