"You have a sense of an independent sculpture."
Curator Stuart Pyhrr on a sixteenth-century Burgonet by Filippo Negroli.
Throughout 2013, The Met invited curators from across the Museum to each talk about one artwork that changed the way they see the world.
What makes this helmet a masterpiece of Renaissance metalwork?
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Armorer Filippo Negroli
dated 1543
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