EditorialKnight armed for the bond, a joust where the horse's eyes were covered, 1512. Knight in visored salade helmet with ring hooked to the grand guard a la montoniere, breastplate with lance rest and drapery, lance with morne, coronel and pennant. Horse in ...
EditorialKing Henry VIII of England, 1595. The king in blue steel armour edged with gold, pass-guards, gauntlets, breastplate and pauldrons with red cross, lamboys, visored helmet with plumes. Horse in manefaire, chainmail criniere, barding, caparison with Tudo...
EditorialMaximilian I, Emperor of Germany, 1498. In a suit of fluted armour, helmet with visored beavor, culettes, puckered velvet lamboys and long tassets. Horse in barding, chanfron with cheek pieces, manefaire, fringed croupiere and leg armour. After a print...
EditorialThree helmets from the late 15th century. A kettle hat in the middle, a sallet with visor at left, and a visored helmet decorated with flames at right. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's "Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the early Middle Age...
EditorialDesign for a Decorative Burgonet, Pen and ink, graphite on laid paper, Vertical rectangle, lined border in pen and ink. Decorative visored helmet seen from the left in profile, the brim formed by the upper part of the head of a griffon. Body of the hel...
EditorialHead of a Soldier, Giuseppe Zocchi, Italian, 1711 or 1717 - 1767, Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (called Guercino), Italian, 1591 1666, Engraving in brown ink on white paper, The soldier in a pointed and visored helmet faces left, one art at this side, th...
EditorialDesign for a Decorative Burgonet, Pen and ink, graphite on laid paper, Vertical rectangle, lined border in pen and ink. Decorative visored helmet seen from the left in profile, the brim formed by the upper part of a fantastical animal's head. The body ...
EditorialDesign for a Decorative Burgonet, Pen and ink, graphite on laid paper, Vertical rectangle, lined border in pen and ink. Decorative visored helmet seen from the left in profile, the brim formed by the head of a boar. The body of the helmet is decorated ...
EditorialDesign for a Decorative Burgonet, Pen and ink, graphite on laid paper, Vertical rectangle, lined border in pen and ink. Decorative visored helmet seen from the left in profile, the brim formed by the upper part of a fantastical animal's head. At the en...
EditorialDesign for a Decorative Burgonet, Pen and ink, graphite on laid paper, Vertical rectangle, lined border in pen and ink. Decorative visored helmet seen from the left in profile, the brim formed by the upper part of the face of a mask with moustache. A r...
EditorialVisored Bascinet, Western European, ca. 13751400, Western European, Steel, leather, H. 12 in. (30.5 cm); W. 9 3/8 in. (23.8 cm); D. 17 in. (43.2 cm); Wt. 6 lb. 6 oz. (2875 g), Helmets.
EditorialVisored Bascinet in the 14th century style, French, 19th century, French, Steel, H. 11 5/8 in. (29.5 cm); W. 7 1/2 in. (19.1 cm); Wt. 6 lb. 6 oz. (2891.7 g), Forgeries.
EditorialSaxon infantry in chainmail and visored helmets, with spears and large shields, holds off the Norman attack. Bayeux Tapestry, embroidery (11th) .
EditorialKnight armed for the bond, a joust where the horse's eyes were covered, 1512. Knight in visored salade helmet with ring hooked to the grand guard a la montoniere, breastplate with lance rest and drapery, lance with morne, coronel and pennant. Horse in ...
EditorialSir John Cornwall, First Baron Fanhope and Milbroke, English nobleman and soldier, 1364-1442. He wears a suit of plate armour, armorial tabard with a gold-crowned red lion on ermine field. Cornwall holds the banner and stands on the shield of a French ...
EditorialKing Henry VIII of England, 1595. The king in blue steel armour edged with gold, pass-guards, gauntlets, breastplate and pauldrons with red cross, lamboys, visored helmet with plumes. Horse in manefaire, chainmail criniere, barding, caparison with Tudo...
EditorialMaximilian I, Emperor of Germany, 1498. In a suit of fluted armour, helmet with visored beavor, culettes, puckered velvet lamboys and long tassets. Horse in barding, chanfron with cheek pieces, manefaire, fringed croupiere and leg armour. After a print...
EditorialHelmets from the Tower of London. Black helmet with visor 1,2, Oliver Cromwells iron helmet with brass studs 3, and visored helmet 4,5. Copperplate engraving from Francis Grose's Military Antiquities respecting a History of the English Army, Stockdale,...
EditorialA knight of the Blanchfront Family, 1397. He wears a suit of armour with a visored bassinet, silk camail, ornamented mamillieres, round cuffed gauntlets, hauberk, belts ornamented with rosettes, shoulders and elbows with roundels. After a monument in A...
EditorialLong bellied armour, 1545. Suit of engraved armour with large long belly, large pass guards, plumed and visored helmet and pike. Handcoloured lithograph by Maddocks after an illustration by S.R. Meyrick from Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick's A Critical Inquiry...
EditorialVisored Bascinet, ca. 1375?1400, Western European, Steel, H. 12 in. (30.5 cm); W. 9 3/8 in. (23.8 cm); D. 17 in. (43.2 cm); Wt. 6 lb. 6 oz. (2875 g), Helmets, The visored bascinet served as the standard helmet worn throughout Europe from about 1300 to ...
EditorialSallet, ca. 1470?80, Milan, Italian, Milan, Steel, H. 10 3/4 in. (27.3 cm); W. 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm); D. 10 1/4 in. (26 cm); Wt. 6 lb. 9.4 oz. (2988 g), Helmets, The term sallet (from the Italian celata) is applied to a wide variety of fifteenth-century ...
EditorialVisored Bascinet, ca. 1450, German, Steel, H. 17 in. (43.2 cm); W. 10 13/16 in. (27.5 cm); D. 13 3/4 in. (34.9 cm); Wt. 10 lb. 12 oz. (4876 g), Helmets.
EditorialVisored Sallet, ca. 1475, possibly French or Flemish, Steel, H. 8 1/4 in. (21 cm); W. 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm); D. 12 1/2 in. (31.8 cm); Wt. 4 lb. 1 oz. (1843 g), Helmets, The distinctive shape of this sallet identifies it as French or Flemish, examples of ...
EditorialVisored Bascinet, ca. 1425?50, Italian, Steel, H. 13 3/8 in. (34 cm); W. 8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm); D. 9 1/4 in. (23.5 cm); Wt. 8 lb. 10 oz. (3912 g), Helmets, This particular form of helmet, with its two-piece construction, distinctive visor, and hinger fla...
EditorialThree helmets from the late 15th century. A kettle hat in the middle, a sallet with visor at left, and a visored helmet decorated with flames at right. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's "Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the early Middle Age...
EditorialSaxon infantry in chainmail and visored helmets, with spears and large shields, holds off the Norman attack. Bayeux Tapestry, embroidery (11th) .
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