Heroic Armor of the Italian Renaissance Filippo Negroli and His Contemporaries
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780300086188
Subjects: Individual artists; Militaria, arms & armour; Renaissance art; History; Art & Art Instruction; Art; Italy; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - Museum; History - Renaissance; Art / General; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General; Military - Other
First sentence: Among the hundreds of artists' biographies utilized to chart the progress of Italian art in Giorgio Vasari's monumental work of 1550, The Lives of the Most Excellent Architects, Painters and Sculptors from Cimabue to Our Times, only one armorer is mentioned: "Filippo Negroli of Milan, chiseler of arms in iron with leaves and figures."