Design for an Armor Helmet with Tournament Headdress

Baccio del Bianco

ca. 1620–56 · Black ink · Drawings and Prints

Design for an Armor Helmet with Tournament Headdress — Baccio del Bianco

Side view of a design for an armor helmet with an open visor (facing the left). The design of the helmet itself is raelatively simple, but it has been decorated with an elaborate arched, almost s-shaped headdress, made up out of plumes of feathers, flowers and arching straps decorated with ribbons.

Artist
Baccio del Bianco
Date
ca. 1620–56
Medium
Black ink
Department
Drawings and Prints
Credit line
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1948

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