id: 96206 accession number: 1916.1920 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1920 updated: 2022-01-04 14:39:29.773000 Gothic Bevor, c. 1480. Spain (Hispano-Flemish), 15th century. Steel; overall: 27.4 x 16.3 cm (10 13/16 x 6 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance 1916.1920 title: Gothic Bevor title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1480 creation date earliest: 1475 creation date latest: 1485 current location: 210A Armor Court creditline: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance copyright: --- culture: Spain (Hispano-Flemish), 15th century technique: steel department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Arms & Armor type: Arms and Armor find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 27.4 x 16.3 cm (10 13/16 x 6 7/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: 35th Anniversary Exhibition opening date: 1951-06-20T04:00:00 35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951). title: Armor Court Reinstallation opening date: 1998-09-10T00:00:00 Armor Court Reinstallation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Frank Gair Macomber (1849-1941), Boston, MA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: -1916 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1916- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: A mark showing a square with a dot at the center is on the inside of this helmet; so far it is unidentified. digital description: wall description: A bevor is a piece of plate armor that is intended to protect the chin and upper throat. It normally supplemented an open helmet like the sallet. Gothic plate armor achieves its beauty not by surface decoration by the simple elegance of its line, seemingly inspired by contemporary gothic architecture, from which it gets its name. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Catalogue of Arms and Armour. Vol. 1, 14th & 15th centuries. [Boston, Massachusetts]: [Frank Gair Macomber], [1900-1915]. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: No. 24 [22] url: https://archive.org/details/CatArmsArmour1/page/n169 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. 67, C19 url: https://archive.org/details/SeveranceCollection1924/page/n97 Fliegel, Stephen N. Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1998. page number: cat. no. 8, p. 182 url: Fliegel, Stephen N. Arms & Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007. page number: cat. no. 36, p. 164 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1920/1916.1920_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1920/1916.1920_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1920/1916.1920_full.tif