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  • image SM volume 115/161ah

Reference number

SM volume 115/161ah

Purpose

Drawing 8 (bottom row, centre left): Helmet with volutes

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, is similar to Drawing 7, having a peak designed as an animal mask that merges with the skull, which in this case is treated rather like a snail’s shell, like the helmet in Verrocchio’s Alexander relief (Butterfield 1998, pp. 230–31, fig. 205), and a flange at the back with a scroll at the bottom.

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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