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  • image SM volume 115/161ag

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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