Sallet "in the Venetian Style"
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Sallets covered with textile and mounted with decorative metal appliqués were worn for parades and tournaments throughout Italy in the fifteenth century. The practice apparently was continued into the eighteenth century, particularly in Venice; hence these colorful helmets came to be called alla veneziana. The present example is covered with an old red velvet (but possibly applied in modern times) and mounted with a border of gilt-copper leaves, probably of seventeenth-century date (the leaves at the front and across the top are restorations). Unused rivet holes visible inside the bowl indicate that the helmet was once fitted with different appliqués.
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