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"title": "Close Helmet (from a funerary achievement?)",
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"measurements": "Overall: 33 x 34 x 21.3 cm (13 x 13 3/8 x 8 3/8 in.)",
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"id": 190103,
"title": "Armor Court Reinstallation",
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"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art (09/10/1998); \"Armor Court Reinstallation\"",
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"description": "Gorget (from a funerary achievement?), c.1590\u20131625. Netherlands(?), late 16th-early 17th Century. Gilded steel (invaded with rust); red velvet lining, plume holder; overall: 32.4 x 24.8 x 19.1 cm (12 3/4 x 9 3/4 x 7 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance, 1916.1806",
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"did_you_know": "This helmet was decorated with a technique known as fire-gilding, an incredibly toxic process involving mercury that produced a gold finish, now worn away.",
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"description": "This helmet was originally intended for field use. Later, it seems to have served a funerary purpose, probably as an ornament (known as a funerary achievement) suspended over the church tomb of an unidentified knight. As such, it would have been a rich and imposing symbol of the dead knight's social rank and personal authority.",
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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. 49, B21",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/SeveranceCollection1924/page/n71"
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{
"citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N. Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1998.",
"page_number": "p. 84, 165; cat. no. 57",
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"citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N. Arms & Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.",
"page_number": "p. 100, 185, cat no. 64",
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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": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 286-287, fig. 333",
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