Cabasset
Unknown
ca. 1575 · Steel, gold, silver, copper alloy · Arms and Armor
The decoration depicts the Roman soldier Marcus Curtius leaping into a fiery abyss. This legend served in antiquity and in the Renaissance as an example of self-sacrifice and virtue.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- ca. 1575
- Medium
- Steel, gold, silver, copper alloy
- Culture
- Italian, Milan
- Department
- Arms and Armor
- Credit line
- Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942
