Heroic Armor of the Italian Renaissance Filippo Negroli and His Contemporaries |
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| Author:
| Pyhrr, Stuart W.
Godoy, Jose A. |
| Series title: | Metropolitan Museum of Art Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-300-08618-8 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1999 |
| Publisher: | Yale University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $29.95 |
Book Description:
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Around 1525 a new fashion emerged in armour design, inspired by the forms and ornament of classical art. Embossed in high relief, richly gilt, and inlaid with gold and silver, these lavish parade armours are invariably associated with Filippo Negroli, the most innovative and celebrated of the renowned armourers of Milan. He and his family numbered among their patrons the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and members of the French court.
Around 1525 a new fashion emerged in armour design, inspired by the forms and ornament of classical art. Embossed in high relief, richly gilt, and inlaid with gold and silver, these lavish parade armours are invariably associated with Filippo Negroli, the most innovative and celebrated of the renowned armourers of Milan. He and his family numbered among their patrons the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and members of the French court.