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What makes this helmet a masterpiece of Renaissance metalwork?

"You have a sense of an independent sculpture."

"You have a sense of an independent sculpture."

Curator Stuart Pyhrr on a sixteenth-century burgonet by Filippo Negroli.

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Burgonet, Filippo Negroli  Italian, Steel, gold, textile, Italian, Milan
Filippo Negroli
dated 1543