deem-data/ArtiFact huggingface dataset:
Park Drag  #20300
Object type: drawing
Date: 1894 – 1894
Materials: graphite
Artist: brewster & co.
Artist role: manufacturer
Artist nationality: american
Subjects: carriages

Brewster & Company History Established in 1810 by James Brewster (1788–1866) in New Haven, Connecticut, Brewster & Company, specialized in the manufacture of fine carriages. The founder opened a New York showroom in 1827 at 53-54 Broad Street, and the company flourished under generations of family leadership. Expansion necessitated moves around lower Manhattan, with name changes reflecting shifts of management–James Brewster & Sons operated at 25 Canal Street, James Brewster Sons at 396 Broadway, and Brewster of Broome Street was based at 372 & 374 Broome Street with a repository (showroom) on 14th Street & Fifth Avenue. By 1874, Brewster & Company had 400 employees and combined warehouse and factory facilities at 47th & 48th Streets and Broadway. Brewster successfully branched out to produce their own automobiles, as well as supplying bodies for Rolls Royce at their Long Island City location. Notable clientele included Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, August Belmont, J.P. Morgan, John Jacob Astor, Andrew J. Cassatt (brother of artist Mary Cassatt), William Rockefeller, Henry Clay Frick and Pierre Lorillard. Talented draftsmen employed by the firm included Paul Steinbeck, Herman Stahmer and John Gribbon, the latter teaching at the Carriage Builders and Designers Technical School, which opened in 1880 and was housed initially at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. When the company finally dissolved in 1923, its last owner William Brewster (1866–1949) donated its archive of design and presentation drawings to the Museum where he served as benefactor and trustee. Of all American carriage manufacturers, none was as highly regarded for design, finish and quality as Brewster & Company. They won many awards for outstanding workmanship, including the Legion d’Honneur (Legion of Honor) at the 1878 Paris Exposition (3rd World’s Fair). In appreciation for this achievement the Carriage Builders’ National Association presented them with a gold enameled Tiffany & Company plaque and autograph book signed by leading American carriage builders, both now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Merri Ferrell, 2016
Two Young Women Playing a Game of Sugoroku
Object type: print
Date: 1769 – 1825
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: woodblock print
Culture: japanese
Artist: utagawa toyokuni i
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1769 – 1825
Subjects: women,games
Kleine vogelvanger
Object type: print
Date: 1760 – 1785
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: the hague
Artist: pieter willem van megen
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1750 – 1785
Subjects: birds, boy (child between toddler and youth)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Portret van een onbekende jongen als de kleine vogelvanger met een vogel in zijn handen.
Gezicht op de Amstel en het Rondeel
Object type: drawing
Date: 1677 – 1708
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: brush, pen
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: sailing-ship, sailing-boat, city-view in general; 'veduta', canal, bridge in city across river, canal, etc., boat propelled by man or animal
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 800a

Tekening binnen de Atlas Van Eck ingedeeld op wijknummer 7.
Seated Buddha with Double-Lotus Base
Object type: figure
Date: 1067 – 1100
Materials: bronze, copper, silver
Techniques: inlay
Culture: burmese
Subjects: buddha
Cover
Object type: cover
Date: 1720 – 1730
Materials: metal thread, silk
Subjects: flowers
Jérusalem, Tombeau des rois de Juda, Fragments d'un sarcophage
Object type: photograph
Date: 1854 – 1854
Techniques: paper negative, salted paper print
Artist: auguste salzmann
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1824 – 1872
Subjects: sarcophagus
Glass aryballus (oil bottle) with bronze suspension chain
Object type: aryballos with bronze ring handle and chain
Date: 1 – 200
Materials: bronze, glass
Culture: roman

Translucent blue green; handles in same color. Collar rim folded out, down, round, and up, with outward flange at top; cylindrical neck with tooling marks around base; globular body; rounded bottom; two opposed ring handles applied to top of body, with tooled groove at outer edge of pad. Intact, except for tiny weathered chip on rim; few bubbles; slight soil encrustation, dulling, and some iridescent weathering on exterior, soil deposits and brownish weathering on interior. Attached to each handle, a circular bronze ring made by bending length of wire into circle, held in place by twisting the overlapping ends; attached to rings two long bronze chains, square in profile, both attached at other ends to another ring of tear-drop, also attached to this ring is another short length of bronze chain and then another circular bronze ring. Since the ancients did not have soap, they used olive oil to help cleanse their skin. Bottles such as this one were ideal for carrying one’s own supply to the baths.
Drie mannenhoofden
Object type: print
Date: 1920 – 1920
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: groningen
Artist: marius holleman
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1878 – 1926
Subjects: adult man, head-gear: hat
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

De linker man en profil naar rechts; de twee andere mannen en profil naar links. De middelste man draagt een hoed.
Liggende hond en een duif op een duiventil
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1666 – 1666
Materials: chalk, ink, paper
Techniques: brush
Artist: cornelis saftleven
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1607 – 1681
Subjects: dove-cote, dog

Blad 35 recto uit een schetsboek met 49 bladen.
Armband with Spirals
Object type: armband
Date: 1400 – 1101
Materials: copper alloy
Culture: european bronze age
Rochet. Théophile. 24 ans, né à Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine) le 7/6/69. Cordonnier. Anarchiste. 18/3/94.
Object type: mugshot
Date: 1894 – 1894
Techniques: albumen silver print, glass negative
Artist: alphonse bertillon
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1853 – 1914
Subjects: men,portraits

Born into a distinguished family of scientists and statisticians, Bertillon began his career as a clerk in the Identification Bureau of the Paris Prefecture of Police in 1879. Tasked with maintaining reliable police records of offenders, he developed the first modern system of police identification. The system, which became known as Bertillonage, had three components: anthropometric measurement, precise verbal description of the prisoner’s physical characteristics, and standardized photographs of the face. In the early 1890s Paris was subject to a wave of bombings and assassination attempts carried out by anarchist proponents of "propaganda of the deed." One of Bertillon’s greatest successes came in March 1892, when his system of identification led to the arrest of an anarchist bomber who went by the name Ravachol (2005.100.375.348). The publicity surrounding the case earned Bertillon the Legion of Honor and encouraged police departments around the world to adopt his anthropometric system.
Plaatsnijder
Object type: print
Date: 1700 – 1800
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: handicrafts, craftsman at work, engraver, etcher
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 4779, watermark: ‘Pro Patria, Nederlandse maagd met de Hollandse leeuw in de tuin’, collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Prent afkomstig uit een 18e-eeuwse roofdruk van de originele serie van 100 beroepsprenten door Jan en Caspar Luyken, getiteld: Het menselyk bedryf. S.l.s.n., 1694 (eerste druk).
Kachelplaat met twee vrouwenfiguren, Leda en Fortuna (?)
Object type: stove plate
Date: 1550 – 1600
Materials: iron
Techniques: casting
Location: germany
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: jupiter, in the shape of a swan, and leda, fortuna as roman personification

Kachelplaat van gietijzer, verdeeld in twee zones. In de bovenste zone onder bogen twee vrouwenfiguren op een console. Zij worden van elkaar gescheiden door een colonnet. De linkervrouw is Leda met de zwaan op een zuiltje naast haar. Rechts is mogelijk Fortuna. Boven de bogen bladornament. In de onderste zone een medaillon met buste en profil te midden van bladornament met fantasiewezens en erboven een gevleugelde engelenkop.
Portretten van koningen, prinsen en generaals
Object type: print
Date: 1649 – 1649
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: paris
Subjects: lodewijk xiii (koning van frankrijk)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Boekillustratie in: Estienne, Henry. Devises des roys, princes et generaux d'armees qui ont assiste ou servy Louis le Juste combattant. In: Les Triomphes de Louis le Juste XIII. Parijs: A. Estienne, 1649.
Tobacco Box with Scene of Venus and Adonis
Object type: metalwork
Date: 1701 – 1733
Materials: brass
Location: england
Shoes
Object type: shoe
Date: 1800 – 1810
Materials: leather, linen, silk
Culture: french
Kop beschilderd met vlinders en libellen
Object type: cup
Date: 1784 – 1809
Materials: porcelain
Techniques: painted
Location: ouder-amstel

Kop zonder oor veelkleurig beschilderd met vlinders en libellen. Gemerkt: Amstel.
Titelpagina voor: Gerard Goris, Les Délices de la campagne à l'entour de la ville de Leide, 1712
Object type: print
Date: 1712 – 1712
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: leiden
Subjects: ghent, charles v (holy roman emperor and king of spain), pedestal of a piece of sculpture (perhaps in the form of a herm), historical persons (portraits and scenes from the life)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2760, collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Titelpagina voor: Goris, Gerard. Les Délices de la campagne à l'entour de la ville de Leide. Leiden: Haak, Dirk (I), 1712.
Het afgedrukte portret beeldt waarschijnlijk Karel V uit, maar het is onduidelijk wat hij met de inhoud van het boek te maken heeft.
Salt
Object type: salt
Date: 1800 – 1900
Materials: gemstone, glass
Techniques: pressed
Culture: american or french
Location: france
À la Bodiniére
Object type: print
Date: 1894 – 1894
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: france
Artist: théophile-alexandre steinlen
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french, born switzerland
Artist dates: 1859 – 1923
Subjects: cats, animals
Portret van Anna Stuart, koningin van Engeland
Object type: print
Date: 1683 – 1724
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: anna stuart (koningin van engeland en schotland), insignia and symbols of sovereignty (crown, diadem, sceptre, orb, seal, standard, cloak, pectoral)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Anna Stuart, koningin van Engeland, afgebeeld als prinses van Denemarken. Ze was getrouwd met George, prins van Denemarken. Ze draagt de kroningsmantel en heeft in haar hand een scepter.
The poetical works of William Cowper
Object type: book
Date: 1890 – 1890
Materials: cardboard, leather, paper, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print, printing
Location: london
Inscriptions: dedication: ‘With best wishes to Adrienne/ from MS./ 1895.’, date: ‘OCT/ 1985’, annotation: ‘n[.]o s[.]’
De rivier de Mark
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1839 – 1839
Materials: paper, pencil
Location: north brabant
Artist: johannes tavenraat
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1809 – 1881
Subjects: river, shrubs, landscapes with waters, waterscapes, seascapes (in the temperate zone)
Inscriptions: date and inscription: ‘aan de Mark 1839’

Blad 36 recto uit een schetsboek met 73 bladen.
Spherical spindle-whorl with broad top and base
Object type: spindle whorl
Date: 2000 – 1725
Materials: terracotta
Culture: cypriot
Ontwerp voor zijden stof voor sjaals
Object type: design drawing
Date: 1925 – 1925
Materials: gouache, graphite, paper
Location: paris
Artist: Anonymous
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘1925 soies [sous?] carres et echarpes’
Portret van Friedrich Geselschap
Object type: print
Date: 1865 – 1892
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: leipzig
Artist: august weger
Artist role: print maker, printer
Artist dates: 1823 – 1892
Subjects: painter, historical persons
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2760, collector's mark: Lugt 2228, collector's mark: ‘Franz Radestock’
Pair of Sword-Grip Ornaments (Menuki)
Object type: pair of sword grip ornament menuki
Date: 1801 – 1900
Materials: copper, gold alloy, gold, silver
Culture: japanese
Location: japan
Subjects: human figures
'sGravenhaegse Vrydagse Courant van den 4den February / Omstandige Beschryving van de Plegtige Lyk-statie van wylen Zyne Hoogvorstelyke Doorluchtigheyt, Willem Carel Hendrik Friso (...)
Object type: newspaper
Date: 1752 – 1752
Materials: paper
Techniques: letterpress printing
Location: the hague
Artist: anthoni de groot
Artist role: publisher
Subjects: willem iv (prins van oranje-nassau), delft
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Aflevering van de 'sGravenhaegse Vrydagse Courant van vrijdag 4 februari 1752 met een beschrijving van de rouwstoet van stadhouder Willem IV zoals die plaatsvond te Delft op die dag. Dubbelgevouwen blad op vier bladzijden bedrukt, de eerste twee bladzijden met rouwranden.
Anatomische les van Dr. Nicolaes Tulp
Object type: print
Date: 1798 – 1798
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Artist: johannes pieter de frey
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1770 – 1834
Subjects: the hague, mayor, historical persons, anatomy lesson
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 12

Groepsportret van de Amsterdamse chirurgijns bij een anatomische les. De mannen zitten en staan rond een tafel waarop een lijk ligt. Dokter Nicolaes Tulp geeft onderricht. Hij heeft de arm van het lijk opengelegd en houdt met een tang een bundel armspieren omhoog, terwijl hij met zijn andere hand een demonstrerend gebaar maakt. Naast Nicolaes Tulp staan de chirurgen Jacob Blok, Hartman Hartmansz., Adraen Slabran, Jacob de Witt, Mathijs Kalkoen, Jacob Koolvelt en Frans van Loenen afgebeeld.
Bergpad (vermoedelijk) te Italië
Object type: photograph
Date: 1875 – 1900
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: italy
Artist: gustave eugène chauffourier
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist dates: 1845 – 1919
Subjects: road, path, mountains
Inscriptions: number: ‘2054’, collector's mark: Lugt 3937, annotation:
Cylinder seal
Object type: cylinder seal
Date: 2350 – 2150
Materials: limestone
Culture: akkadian
Location: mesopotamia
De toover-fluit in onderscheide kleedsels / La flute sorcière en differens costumes
Object type: popular print
Date: 1800 – 1833
Materials: paper
Techniques: colour, letterpress printing
Location: turnhout
Subjects: stage costume, opera-singer (female), opera-singer (male)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2760

Blad met 3 horizontale rijen met elk zes personages uit de opera de Toverfluit (Die Zauberflöte) op een rij. Genummerd rechtsonder: No. 50.
Osiride Figure of Kenamun
Object type: funerary statuette, qenamun
Date: 1427 – 1400
Materials: paint, wood
Location: memphite region
Vase base and top of stand
Object type: vase base and top of stand
Date: 7000 – 330
Materials: bronze
A gentleman standing in front of a large castle and wearing a plumed hat and a lace collar, the tomb with an engraving of the head of a woman on the ground to right, from "The Garden of the French Nobles In Which One Can Pick Up Their Way of Dressing"
Object type: print
Date: 1629 – 1629
Techniques: etching
Artist: abraham bosse
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1602 – 1676
Subjects: castles,bridges,men,boats
Kyoto: Dairi
Object type: print
Date: 1838 – 1838
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: woodblock print
Culture: japanese
Artist: utagawa hiroshige
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1797 – 1858
Subjects: human figures,houses
Twee engelen met de zweetdoek
Object type: print
Date: 1513 – 1513
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: nuremberg
Artist: albrecht dürer
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1471 – 1528
Subjects: 'vera icon', held up by angels
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Twee engelen houden de zweetdoek van Veronica met de afdruk van het gelaat van Christus vast (het sudarium).
De Munster Kerk te Emmerik / d'Oude of St Aldegonde Kerk te Emmerik 1732
Object type: print
Date: 1762 – 1762
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Subjects: landscapes with waters, waterscapes, seascapes (in the temperate zone), church (exterior)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Twee voorstellingen van één plaat. Gezichten op de Munsterkerk (boven) en de Sint-Aldegondekerk (onder) aan de Rijn te Emmerik, Duitsland. De prent maakt deel uit van een 100-delige serie met gezichten op dorpen en steden te Kleef.
Jacques d'Auchy neemt in de gevangenis te Leeuwarden afscheid van zijn vrouw, 1558
Object type: book illustration
Date: 1685 – 1685
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: prison, jail, persecution of heretics
Inscriptions: number: ‘72’, collector's mark: Lugt 2228, inscription: ‘Jaques de'Auchy [...] Ao 1559’
French Bund, Shanghai
Object type: photograph
Date: 1865 – 1865
Techniques: albumen silver print, glass negative
Artist: john thomson
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: british, scottish
Artist dates: 1837 – 1921
Brick fragment with a guilloche design
Object type: brick
Date: 900 – 801
Materials: ceramic, glaze
Culture: assyrian
Location: mesopotamia

The Assyrian palaces were originally decorated with bright colors and elaborate patterns. Sadly, little of this polychromy survives. Small amounts of pigment remain visible on some reliefs but rarely on ivories, while images in art can also give some impression of textiles that have not survived. Perhaps the best sources for polychromy in the palaces are fragments of painted and glazed ceramic architectural elements. This brick fragment provides an example in color of a guilloche pattern found in much Assyrian art. Painted and glazed brickwork is a major category in ancient Near Eastern art. Some of the most spectacular examples can be seen in Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylon, and at the palace of the Achaemenid Persian king Darius I at Susa.
Weg met bomen aan weerszijden
Object type: print
Date: 1859 – 1886
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: netherlands
Artist: elias stark
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1849 – 1933
Subjects: trees
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Anthropomorphic Celt
Object type: ax blade
Date: 1500 – 500
Materials: copper
Culture: indian
Strand met een op het zand getrokken zeilschip
Object type: print
Date: 1654 – 1748
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: netherlands
Subjects: sailing-ship, sailing-boat, beach
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 12

Mensen lopend op het strand en door het ondiepe water. Een zeilschip op het zand getrokken, een aantal boten liggend in het ondiepe water en een aantal varend op het open water. Op een hoger gelegen stuk land een klein dorp. Dubbele rand rondom voorstelling.
Sketches of Six Heads in Profile (caricatures?) (recto); Sketch of Head and Blank Rectangle (verso)
Object type: drawing
Date: 1833 – 1898
Materials: chalk, graphite, paper
Artist: félicien rops
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: belgian
Artist dates: 1833 – 1898
Subjects: heads,men,portraits,profiles
Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)
Object type: kylix fragment
Date: 520 – 500
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

Interior, unidentified subject; Exterior, drapery and left foot of figure to left; the smaller fragment, depicts toes
Portret van Christoph von Schmid
Object type: print
Date: 1835 – 1868
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: nuremberg
Subjects: augsburg, clergyman, knighthood order, historical persons
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Plate 9 from 'Los Caprichos': Tantalus (Tantalo.)
Object type: print
Date: 1798 – 1799
Techniques: aquatint, burnishing, etching
Location: spain
Artist: goya (francisco de goya y lucientes)
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: spanish
Artist dates: 1746 – 1828
Subjects: sadness,men,women,death
Brief aan Jan Veth
Object type: letter
Date: 1886 – 1886
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: pen, writing
Location: amsterdam
Artist: albert verwey
Artist role: criticus, dichter, essayist
Artist dates: 1865 – 1937
Subjects: william shakespeare, rotterdam, george hendrik breitner, dordrecht, designer, jan veth, jan hoynck van papendrecht, the hague, painter, draughtsman, willem maris, arnhem, anton mauve, jacob maris, utrecht, albert neuhuys (1844-1914), maastricht, antonie frederik zürcher, maurits van der valk, den bosch, antoon derkinderen, amsterdam, print maker, willem bastiaan tholen, wally moes, zeist, rijksmuseum amsterdam, the graphic arts, painting (including book-illumination, miniature-painting), historical persons (portraits and scenes from the life)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘RPK’

Opgenomen in: Verwey, Albert, Margaretha H. Schenkeveld, Rein van der Wiel: Briefwisseling 1 juli 1885 tot 15 december 1888, Amsterdam: EM. Querido's Uitgeverij B.V., 1993, p. 230-232.
Wedding glass
Object type: goblet
Date: 1753 – 1753
Materials: glass
Techniques: diamond point engraving, glassblowing
Location: northern netherlands
Artist: adam christiaan schonck
Subjects: (civil) marriage ceremonies

translation of inscription: The prosperity of this house, 1753 / Z. Verbeeck, and I.M. des Milleville / spouses
Portret van een man, staand bij een stoel met hoge hoed
Object type: photograph
Date: 1860 – 1890
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: standing figure, historical persons, head-gear: top hat
Silhouetportret van Jacob van Loo
Object type: print
Date: 1799 – 1801
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: netherlands
Artist: hendrik roosing
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1763 – 1826
Subjects: historical persons

Met zesregelig lofdicht in het Nederlands, ter gelegenheid van het overlijden van Van Loo. Rechtsonder vermeld: Proefdruk.
Scarab amulet
Object type: amulet, scarab
Date: 664 – 380
Materials: gold
Subjects: scarabs
Vevey. Le Quai
Object type: ansichtkaart, prentbriefkaart
Date: 1905 – 1918
Materials: cardboard, photographic process
Location: vevey
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: church (exterior), lake, prospect of city, town panorama, silhouette of city
Coin Weight
Object type: coin weight
Date: 1201 – 1400
Materials: glass
Techniques: stamping
Location: egypt
Half-length portrait study of a woman wearing a cap and pearl earrings
Object type: drawing
Date: 1740 – 1760
Materials: chalk, graphite, ink, paper
Techniques: drawing
Artist: joseph van aken
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: flemish
Artist dates: 1699 – 1749
Subjects: portraits,women

After training in Antwerp, the young Van Aken went to London, where he specialized in painting draperies. The leading portraitists there, including Joseph Highmore, Thomas Hudson, and Allan Ramsay, often painted only a sitter's face, relying on Van Aken to finish the rest of the figure. His work became ubiquitous, to the point that the collector and writer Horace Walpole remarked wryly: "As in England almost everybody's picture is painted, so almost every painter's works were painted by Van Aken." An assistant probably made this portrait study, but it demonstrates Van Aken's typical attention to texture. The satin gown with its bow-bedecked stomacher, the lace collar, the sleeves, and the cap have all been differentiated by black and white chalk and further defined with touches of brown ink. The design was then overlaid with a graphite grid to allow it to be transferred accurately onto canvas.
Helmet all'Antica
Object type: helmet all'antica
Date: 1532 – 1535
Materials: steel
Culture: italian
Location: italy
Artist: filippo negroli
Artist role: armorer
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1485 – 1605

Fashioned to resemble a head of tightly curled hair encircled by a wreath of oak leaves, this helmet evokes the appearance of an ancient hero, perhaps a Roman emperor. The reference to the oak (rovere, in Italian) may indicate that the helmet was made for a member of the della Rovere family, dukes of Urbino. The cheek-pieces are probably nineteenth-century restorations.