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Drawing 7 (bottom row, left): Helmet with wings and a mask
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Reference number
SM volume 115/161ag
Purpose
Drawing 7 (bottom row, left): Helmet with wings and a mask
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, seen again in a schematic drawing from c.1515, has a peak designed as an animal mask that rises seamlessly to a skull with a spiked comb. A peak with such a mask merging similarly with the skull is also a feature of the helmet in Saint Petersburg designed by Filippo Negroli for Guidobaldo della Rovere c.1532/35 (Pyhrr–Godoy pp. 136–46). The flange has scrolls at its sides, and the ears are also scrolled and have wings emerging, as in Drawing 3, from in front rather than behind them.
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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