St. Augustine Florida Excavated Spanish Morion

[fernando]

Originally Posted by Jim McDougall

Good point Fernando, and well placed. While the Dutch artist devised a fantastic helmet with the artists inventiveness and brush, the Portuguese example was a reality. One can only wonder if such other helmets were seen or known to these Dutch individuals, or whether such helmets were quite rarely seen and the embellishment was purely coincidental.

Rainer Daehnhardt dedicates more than one page to this subject in the catalogue this 'Vice Roy' example went to auction. In a more thorough reading, at one stage he comments on the paint "The man with the golden cabasset", 'previously' attributed to Rembrandt, as being one more example of the same kind, probably fallen into the hands of the Dutch, during one of the frequent battles fought in the Indic Ocean. So according to his perspective the pseudo-Rembrandt example is not, as i previously realized, an artist invention but one modeled from the real thing... and probably also Indo-Portuguese. In another paragraph he mentions that the only other exixting example of this school is in the NY Metropolitan, however naked from its gold cover and with all buttons missing.


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