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Drawing 9 (bottom row, centre right): Helmet with snail scroll on skull
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Reference number
SM volume 115/161ai
Purpose
Drawing 9 (bottom row, centre right): Helmet with snail scroll on skull
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 of c.1515, has a vertical peak except that it is made extra tall and given a terminal scroll. At the back it has a deep flange with an inward curving scroll, and a skull designed in the shape of a snail’s shell.
Literature
Ashby 1904, p. 73
Level
Drawing
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