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"title": "Closed Sallet with Grotesque Face (Schembart visor)",
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"id": 190103,
"title": "Armor Court Reinstallation",
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"description": "Frank Gair Macomber, Boston, MA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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"did_you_know": "Masked revelers at the Schembartlaufen of Nuremberg enjoyed food, drink, music, and dancing until coming to an abrupt end in 1539 due to the objections of a preacher.",
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"description": "A small number of similar painted helmets survive today. All appear to date to the early 1500s. The visors of these helmets are usually in the form of fiercely grimacing human or animal faces, known as Schembart visors after the masked revelers in the Schembartlaufen, the medieval Shrovetide parades. The city of Nuremberg was particularly famous for its Shrovetide parades that were often held in conjunction with a tournament in which the younger members of the city's patrician families, presumably sporting such helmets, participated.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/CatArmsArmour1"
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"citation": "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. 45, B12; Reproduced: Plate X, B12",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/SeveranceCollection1924/page/n62"
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{
"citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N. Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1998.",
"page_number": "cat. no. 52, p. 165",
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"citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N. Arms & Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.",
"page_number": "cat. no. 65, p. 185",
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{
"citation": "Dobson, Chris. Beaten Black and Blue: The Myth of the Medieval Knight in Shining Armour. Sant'Albano Stura, Italy: Chris Dobson, 2023.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 222, fig. 255",
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