Armet à Rondelle (c. 1460–75): Art, History and Details

Armet à Rondelle (c. 1460–75) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

The armet is a visored helmet with cheekpieces that fasten at the chin. The "rondelle" is the disc at the back of the neck. Its purpose was to protect the point where the two cheekpieces join at the back. This style of helmet was the typical headpiece of the fully armored equestrian knight throughout most of the 1400s.

Object facts

• Title: Armet à Rondelle
• Date: c. 1460–75
• Culture: Italy, Milan
• Type: Arms and Armor
• Technique: steel
• Dimensions: Overall: 28.6 x 32.4 x 20.3 cm (11 1/4 x 12 3/4 x 8 in.)
• Collection: MED - Arms & Armor
• Department: Medieval Art
• Accession number: 1916.1551

Collection credit

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance

Further reading listed by the museum

• Gilchrist, Helen Ives. A Catalogue of the Collection of Arms & Armor Presented to the Cleveland Museum of Art by Mr. and Mrs. John Long Severance; 1916-1923. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1924.
• Gilchrist, Helen Ives, and Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Severance Collection of Arms and Armor. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art. 2nd ed., 1948.
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.

View the collection record

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