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War Hat (or Kettle Hat)

c. 1475–1500

workshop of Antonio Missaglia

(Italian, 1416/17–1495/96)

Itlay, Milan, late 15th Century

Steel

Overall: 36 x 22 x 26.6 cm (14 3/16 x 8 11/16 x 10 1/2 in.)

Weight: 1.78 kg (3.92 lbs.)

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance 1916.1565

Location

210A Armor Court

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The rivets along the rim were not only decorative, but a means of attachment for a liner.

Description

Open helmets like this one were in use from the 1200s to the 1400s and are the ancestor of today's common military helmet. Such helmets were worn by foot soldiers as they attempted to scale the walls of an armed town. The slight ridge, or comb, down the center served to improve deflection and increase strength. Antonio Missaglia's workshop created helmets like this for royalty and knights in the region of Milan. Missaglia inherited the workshop from his father, who was also an armorer, and employed craftsmen who specialized in particular types of armor, such as jointed arm defenses or helmets.

Provenance

Frank Gair Macomber; Boston, MA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1916-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Catalogue of Arms and Armour. [Boston, Massachusetts]: [Frank Gair Macomber], 1900. cat. no. 385 archive.org

Gilchrist, Helen Ives. A Catalogue of the Collection of Arms & Armor Presented to the Cleveland Museum of Art by Mr. and Mrs. John Long Severance; 1916-1923. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1924. Mentioned: p. 41, B2; Reproduced: Plate XVII, B2 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 199 archive.org

Curlee, Kendall. The Sforza Court: Milan in the Renaissance 1450-1535 : Exhibition. Austin: Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, 1988.

Fliegel, Stephen N. Arms & Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007. cat. no. 43, p. 184

Louis, William Noel, and Daniel H. Weiss. The Book of Kings: Art, War and the Morgan Library's Medieval Picture Bible. Baltimore: Walters Art Museum, 2002. cat. no. 32, pp. 92, 188, fig. 6

Fliegel, Stephen N. Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1998. pp. 60, 164, no. 50

Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holger A. Klein. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007. cat. 108, p. 286

Eikelmann, Renate, Holger A. Klein, Stephen N. Fliegel, and Virginia Brilliant. The Cleveland Museum of Art: Meisterwerke von 300 bis 1550. München: Hirmer, 2007. pp. 282-3, no. 106

Exhibition history

The Sforza Court: Milan in the Renaissance 1450-1535, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, TX (October 27-December 18, 1988); University of California Art Museum, Berkeley, CA (January 18-March 12, 1989); Yale University Art Galley, New Haven, CT (April 16-June 4, 1989).

Del Encuentro al Desarollo, Arizona Historical Society, Tucson, AZ (November 15-May 31, 1993).

Armor Court Reinstallation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).

The Book of Kings: Art, War and the Morgan Library's Medieval Picture Bible. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD (organizer) (October 27-December 29, 2002).

Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. National Museum of Bavaria, Munich, Germany (May 10-September 16, 2007); J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (October 30, 2007-January 20, 2008).

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