“You have a sense of an independent sculpture.”
Curator Stuart Pyhrr on a sixteenth-century burgonet by Filippo Negroli.
Head of Class
Stuart W. Pyhrr
2 min. watch
Contributors
Stuart W. Pyhrr
Curator
Curator
Photography by Paul Lachenauer
Art Mentioned
Armorer Filippo Negroli
dated 1543
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