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Title:Armor in the style of the 15th century
Date:ca. 1450 and ca. 1850
Culture:Italian
Medium:Steel, leather
Classification:Armor for Man
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1904
Object Number:04.3.295a–t
Marking: Stamped in many places with an unidentified mark of a cross with a reverse S intertwined; also stamped with a mark of the Missaglia family, possibly Antonio; also stamped with an indistinct mark.
[Jean-Baptiste Carrand, Lyon, until d. 1871; by descent to his son, Louis]; [Louis Carrand, Lyon and Paris, 1871–before 1878]; [Frédéric Spitzer, Paris, 1886–d. 1890; his estate, 1890–95; Armes et Armures faisant partie de la collection Spitzer, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June 10-14, 1895, no. 2, sold, for Fr. 41,000, to Bachereau]; [Louis Bachereau, Paris, 1895–before 1901]; Charles Maurice Camille de Talleyrand-Périgord, Duc de Dino, Paris (by 1901–1904; sold to MMA).
Paris. Palais du Trocadéro. "Exposition Universelle de 1878: L'Exposition Historique du Trocadéro," May 1–October 31, 1878.
Paris. Musée de l'Armée. "Exposition Universelle Internationale de 1889: Exposition Rétrospective du Travail et des Sciences Anthropologiques," 1889, no. 632 (lent by Spitzer).
Bréban, Philibert. Livret-Guide du Visiteur à l'Exposition Historique du Trocadéro, edited by E. Dentu. Paris, 1878. p. 54.
Exposition universelle de 1889. Catalogue Général Officiel: Exposition Rétrospective du Travail et des Sciences Anthorpologiques. Vol. 5. Arts Militaires. Lille: L. Danel, 1889. p. 83, no. 632.
Spitzer, Frédéric. "Armes et Armures." In La Collection Spitzer: Antiquité--Moyen-Âge--Renaissance. Vol. VI. Paris: Maison Quantin, 1892. no. 2, pl. II.
Galerie Georges Petit. Catalogue des Armes et Armures Faisant Partie de la Collection Spitzer. Paris: Galerie Georges Petit, June 10–14 1895. no. 2, ill.
Cosson, Charles Alexander. Le Cabinet d'Armes de Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Duc de Dino. Paris: E. Rouveyre, 1901. no. A-1.
Laking, Guy Francis, Charles Alexander Cosson, and Francis Henry Cripps-Day. A Record of European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries. Vol. I. London: G. Bell & Sons, 1920. p. 180, fig. 214, ill.
Grancsay, Stephen V. "The New Galleries of European Arms and Armor." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (May 1956), p. 213, ill.
Thomas, Bruno, and Ortwin Gamber. "L'Arte Milanese dell'Armatura." Storia di Milano XI p. 730, ill.
Boccia, Lionello G., and Eduardo T. Coelho. L'Arte dell'Armatura in Italia. Milan: Bramante Editrice, 1967. pp. 120, 137, pl. 70–72, ill.
Boccia, Lionello G. "The Devil's Mask." In Art, Arms and Armour : An International Anthology, edited by Robert Held. Vol. 1. Chiasso, Switzerland: Acquafresca Editrice, 1979-1980. p. 31.
Boccia, Lionello G. Le Armature di S. Maria delle Grazie di Curtatone di Mantova e l'Armatura Lombarda del'400. Busto Arsizio: Bramante Editrice, 1982. p. 13, n. 1 (nature of object as fake is noted).
Grancsay, Stephen V., and Stuart W. Pyhrr. Arms & Armor: Essays by Stephen V. Grancsay from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 1920–1964. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986. pp. 421–439; fig. 107.3.
Boccia, Lionello G. "Materiali Iconografici Sull'Armamento Quattrocentesco D'Ambiente Toscano." Antichità viva (1987), pp. 37–53.
La Rocca, Donald J. How to Read European Armor. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2017. pp. 146–147, fig. 160.
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