Close Helmet for the Tourney

Daniel Hopfer

dated 1552 · Steel, leather, brass · Arms and Armor

The ornament on the comb is copied from a design by the Augsburg printmaker and armor etcher Daniel Hopfer (ca. 1470–1536), whose published prints were very influential in the development of a recognizably Augsburg style of armor decoration, which was emulated in Innsbruck and elsewhere in Austria and South Germany.

Artist

Daniel Hopfer

Date

dated 1552

Medium

Steel, leather, brass

Culture

Austrian, Innsbruck

Department

Arms and Armor

Credit line

Bashford Dean Memorial Collection, Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1929