Cabasset

Italian, Milan

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 374

The decoration depicts the Roman soldier Marcus Curtius leaping into a fiery abyss. This legend served in antiquity and in the Renaissance as an example of self-sacrifice and virtue.

Cabasset, Steel, gold, silver, copper alloy, Italian, Milan

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