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  • image SM volume 115/161ai

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

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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