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  • image SM volume 115/161aj

Reference number

SM volume 115/161aj

Purpose

Drawing 10 (bottom row, right): Helmet with wings

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

Drawn in a group from c.1515 with similar characteristics, this burgonet has a vertical peak in the fashion of ancient helmets but doubled, a flange at the back with an outward-facing terminal scroll, a skull scrolled at the ears, and wings located just above 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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