A burgonet is a light, open helmet characterized by a peak, a fall over the eyes, and hinged earpieces. Used by cavalry in the 1500s and 1600s, they were sometimes worn with a buffe, a separate detachable element that protected the face and throat not covered by the burgonet.
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Steel Italian 1543 Filippo Negroli (Italian (Milan), ca. 1510–1579) This masterpiece of Renaissance metalwork is signed on the browplate by Filippo Negroli, whose embossed armor was praised by sixteenth-century chroniclers as "miraculous" and deserving "immortal merit." Made from one plate of steel, patinated to look like bronze, the bowl is raised in high relief with motifs inspired by classical art. The graceful mermaid forming the helmet's comb holds the grimacing head of Medusa by the hair. The sides of the helmet are covered with acanthus scrolls inhabited by putti, a motif probably derived from the Roman wall frescoes rediscovered in the Golden House of Nero.
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Burgonet, German (1530). From the Hermann Historica website. One-piece hammered skull with a comb of three sections (small piercings), movable visor with embossed decorative lines and turned and roped edge, two-lame neck guard, movable cheek pieces (the left piece replaced in former times). Leather and rivets renewed. Height 26 cm, weight 1,38 kg.Finely shaped, early officer's helmet.
Burgonet | German | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
National Military Museum of the Netherlands, Soest, inv. nr. 059424
3d model of helmet Parade Burgonet, gift to the Emperor Karl V. Made by the Italian armorer Filippo Negroli
Marchése Guiseppe di Salvo di Ferrara, Palermo, Sicily (until 1919; sold to Dean); Bashford Dean, New York (1919–d. 1928; by descent to his sister, Harriet Dean); Harriet Martine Dean, New York (1928–29; her gift to MMA)
For Sale on 1stDibs - Summary The elegant shape combined with the helmet’s decoration and blueing strongly suggests that the burgonet was made for a high ranking officer to
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Lobster-Tail Burgonet | Northern European | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Closed Burgonet, Attributed to Kolman Helmschmid (1525–30). Closed burgonets in the fluted style are particularly rare. This is another early model with a pivoting berm and a locking mechanism on the berm for the nasal spike of the buffe. It must have been cumbersome to unlock and slide down.
Proto Sturmhaube (Burgonet), Q1 16th century. The catalog entry of the GNM says the neck guard rotates to ease looking upwards and that the tab on the forehead was for the attachment of an 'Augenshirm' (eye shield) so apparently the eye shield was removable. In modern German 'Augenshirm' is a term for sun shade on a baseball cap or a sun visor headband. Note the pairs of holes on the front rim of the helmet. These may have served to attach the eye shield (by metal tabs? ... or leather laces?).
This is a rare, late example of French embossed armor. The gilt fleur-de-lis rivet heads along the edges, the fleur-de-lis plate at the apex of the bowl, and the laurel branches around the collar suggest it was made for Louis XIII of France (reigned 1610–43)
Artist/maker unknown, Italian
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