About the Artwork
Armor in the Antique Style from the Medici Armory
ca. 1540-1550
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Italian
Italian
Steel, gilding, leather, textile
Overall (top of helmet to tip of tasset): 47 1/2 inches (120.7 cm)
Arms and Armor
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Gift of the William Randolph Hearst Foundation
53.198
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Provenance
from at least 1631–1776, armories of the Medici Grand Dukes, Uffizi, Florence, Italy
1776, Florentine Director of the Artillery, Fortezza da Basso, Florence, Italy
by 1785, Count Franz I zu Erbach-Erbach [1754–1823], Schloss Erbach im Odenwald, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany
1920–1925, by descent to Count Conrad zu Erbach-Erbach [1881–1940], Schloss Erbach im Odenwald, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany
1925–1951, sold, through (Karl von Wiegand and Hans Schedelmann) to William Randolph Hearst (New York, New York, USA)
1951, by bequest to the William Randolph Hearst Foundation
1953-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Dieffenbach, L. Ferdinand. Graf Franz zu Erbach-Erbach: Ein Lebens- und Culturbild aus dem Ende des XVIII. und dem Anfange des XIX. Jahrhunderts. Deutsche Adels-Gallerie 1, 170 p. Darmstadt: Literarisch-artistische Anstalt, 1879, p. 105.
Robinson, F.W. "A Gift of Arms and Armor from the Collection of William Randolph Hearst." Bulletin of the DIA 33, 1 (1953-1954): pp. 1-5.
Schedelmann, H. "Ein Rückblick auf den Waffenmarkt des letzten halben Jahrhunderts." Waffen- und Kostümkunde 15, 1 (1973): pp. 25-35 (ill.).
Renaissance Works of Art from the Permanent Collection. The Detroit Institute of Arts, October 26, 1982-January 2, 1983.
Boccia, L. "Arms and Armor from the Medici Court." Bulletin of the DIA 61, 1-2 (Summer 1983): pp. 58-64 (fig. 2).
Pyhrr, Stuart W. and José A. Godoy. Heroic Armor of the Italian Renaissance: Filippo Negroli and His Contemporaries. New York, 1998, cat. 52, pp. 267-270 (ill.).
Pyhrr, Stuart W. “‘I Would Prefer Gothic.’ William Randolph Hears as an Armor Collector.” In The Spring 2014 Park Lane Arms Fair (2014): pp. 8-9.
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Italian (likely Mantua), Armor in the Antique Style from the Medici Armory, ca. 1540-1550, Steel, gilding, leather, textile. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, 53.198.
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