id: 95883 accession number: 1916.1565 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1565 updated: 2023-08-23 18:08:57.172000 War Hat (or Kettle Hat), c. 1475–1500. Workshop of Antonio Missaglia (Italian, 1416/17–1495/96). Steel; overall: 36 x 22 x 26.6 cm (14 3/16 x 8 11/16 x 10 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance 1916.1565 title: War Hat (or Kettle Hat) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1475–1500 creation date earliest: 1475 creation date latest: 1500 current location: 210A Armor Court creditline: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance copyright: --- culture: Itlay, Milan, late 15th Century technique: steel department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Arms & Armor type: Arms and Armor find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Antonio Missaglia (Italian, 1416/17–1495/96) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 36 x 22 x 26.6 cm (14 3/16 x 8 11/16 x 10 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Armor Court Reinstallation opening date: 1998-09-10T00:00:00 Armor Court Reinstallation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer). title: The Book of Kings: Art, War and the Morgan Library's Medieval Picture Bible opening date: 2002-10-27T00:00:00 The Book of Kings: Art, War and the Morgan Library's Medieval Picture Bible. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD (organizer) (October 27-December 29, 2002). title: Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2007-05-10T00:00:00 Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. National Museum of Bavaria, Munich, Germany (May 10-September 16, 2007); J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (October 30, 2007-January 20, 2008). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * The Sforza Court: Milan in the Renaissance 1450-1535, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, TX (October 27-December 18, 1988); University of California Art Museum, Berkeley, CA (January 18-March 12, 1989); Yale University Art Galley, New Haven, CT (April 16-June 4, 1989). * Del Encuentro al Desarollo, Arizona Historical Society, Tucson, AZ (November 15-May 31, 1993). --- PROVENANCE Frank Gair Macomber; Boston, MA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1916- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The rivets along the rim were not only decorative, but a means of attachment for a liner. digital description: wall description: Open helmets like this one were in use from the 1200s to the 1400s and are the ancestor of today's common military helmet. Such helmets were worn by foot soldiers as they attempted to scale the walls of an armed town. The slight ridge, or comb, down the center served to improve deflection and increase strength. Antonio Missaglia's workshop created helmets like this for royalty and knights in the region of Milan. Missaglia inherited the workshop from his father, who was also an armorer, and employed craftsmen who specialized in particular types of armor, such as jointed arm defenses or helmets. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Catalogue of Arms and Armour. [Boston, Massachusetts]: [Frank Gair Macomber], 1900. page number: cat. no. 385 url: https://archive.org/details/CatArmsArmour1/page/n219/mode/2up 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. page number: Mentioned: p. 41, B2; Reproduced: Plate XVII, B2 url: https://archive.org/details/SeveranceCollection1924/page/n56 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 199 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n45 Curlee, Kendall. The Sforza Court: Milan in the Renaissance 1450-1535 : Exhibition. Austin: Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, 1988. page number: url: Fliegel, Stephen N. Arms & Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007. page number: cat. no. 43, p. 184 url: Louis, William Noel, and Daniel H. Weiss. The Book of Kings: Art, War and the Morgan Library's Medieval Picture Bible. Baltimore: Walters Art Museum, 2002. page number: cat. no. 32, pp. 92, 188, fig. 6 url: Fliegel, Stephen N. Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1998. page number: pp. 60, 164, no. 50 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holger A. Klein. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007. page number: cat. 108, p. 286 url: Eikelmann, Renate, Holger A. Klein, Stephen N. Fliegel, and Virginia Brilliant. The Cleveland Museum of Art: Meisterwerke von 300 bis 1550. München: Hirmer, 2007. page number: pp. 282-3, no. 106 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1565/1916.1565_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1565/1916.1565_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1565/1916.1565_full.tif