Armour & Weapons
Forfatter: Charles Ffoulkes
År: 1909
Forlag: At The Clarendon Press
Sted: Oxford
Sider: 112
UDK: 623 Ffou
With A Preface By Viscount Dillon, V.P.S.A. Curator Of The Tower Armouries
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CHAP. VI
THE DECADENCE
95
which has become the branding mark of this period of the
Renaissance.
It will be sufficient to give one example of this prostitution
of art and craftsmanship. This helmet after Negroli (Fig. 43),
and a similar example, signed by Negroli, at Madrid, show how
the canons of the armourer’s craft were ignored at this period. It
is true that the casque still provides a metal covering for the
head, and that the comb gives an additional protection to the
skull, but when we examine the embossed figures at the side—and
marvellously good the embossing is—we find lodgements for the
sword or spear which would most certainly help to detach the
helmet from its wearer. As to the comb, it may fairly be cited as
an example of all that is artistically worst in the late Renaissance.
Its technical merits only emphasize this. The warrior is laid on
his back to suit the required shape of the helmet, and to give point