Close-Helmet for the Field and Tourney

Unknown

ca. 1560–65; front collar lames, 1544 · Steel, gold, copper alloy · Arms and Armor

The style and design of the etched ornament are typically Brescian, though the confinment of the trophies to multiple narrow bands is highly unusual. The presence of a threded hle on the right side of the upper bevor indicates that this helmet was fitted with a reinforce, presumably for use in the tourney. The three front collar lames are associated; their decoration indicates that they belong to a large armor garniture in the Real Armería, Madrid, made in 1544 by Desiderius Helmschmid and etched by Ulrich Holzmann, both of Augsburg, for Emperor Charles V.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 1560–65; front collar lames, 1544

Medium

Steel, gold, copper alloy

Culture

Italian, probably Brescia; front collar lames, German, Augsburg

Department

Arms and Armor

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1920