The Madrid set is represented in the Inventario Iluminado, the recall the locks on the and of but on different pages: the shield is reproduced on a page the so-called Fame Armor (cat. no. 23), which is unsigned. with other shields (fig. 52), while the burgonet and buffe are Furthermore, the distinctive raised ringlets on the beard are on a page together with the Palm Branch Garniture (fig. 71). also found on the mustaches of the mask decorating the The original coloring of the pieces can be judged from these peak of the della Rovere burgonet (cat. no. 29 ), whose buffe illustrations. is signed by Filippo Negroli and dated 1538. The die-punched The pieces are also identifiable in the Relaci6n de Valladolid inscriptions found on the helmet and shield and on the hel­ and in the inventory of the Real Armeria of 1594: met of 1532 (cat. no. 18), the individually struck letters mea­ suring only 2 millimeters high, are not encountered again in Another burgonet with rounded skull in the manner of the Negroli ouevre, where the armorer's signature is ren­ a golden fleece I A buffe like a gilt beard ... A shield, dered instead in gold damascene. the field black and in the center a gilt lion's head, lined with leather. 1 1. "Otra c;:elada morrion con una cabec;:a redonda a manera de velloci­ A shield with a gilt lion's face I A with gilt curls, no dorado I Un barbote como una barba dorada ... Una rodela el with a face on the buffe. 2 canpo negro y en al mitad una cabec;:a de leon dorado guarnecida de cuero." Relaci6n de Valladolid, ca. 1558, fols. vr and xrr. In light of the apparent popularity of these anthropo­ 2. "Una Rodela con Un Rostra de leon dorado I Un Morrion con su crespo dorado, con Un rrostro en el barvote." Inventory of the morphic , of which there are at least four known Real Armeria, 1594, fol. 41v. examples (cat. nos. 18, 21, 22, in addition to the one under dis­ 3. "Una testa di ferro d'un mora ed li capelli, e barba dorati." Mann cussion), it is worth noting that at lea~t two others are 1939, pp. 324-25, no. 23. recorded as having possessed beards. One formerly 4· "Una celata con barba lavorata per il mezzo et a cima come una belonged to the Gonzaga dukes of Mantua, and is described piega di capella con due rose una per parte con brocche d' ottone." ASP, Urbina, Classe III, Filza XV, fol. 307v. in the inventory of 1604 as "a Moor's head of iron, with the hair and beard gilt."3 The other, mentioned in the 1630 inven­ tory of the armory of the dukes of Urbino, was described as BIB L I o GRAPH Y: Abadia 1793, pp. 3, 57-58; jubinal and Sensi 1839, "a with beard worked in the middle and at the top like vol. r, p. 23, pl. 24, vol. 2, p. 23, pl. 30, supp., p. 27, pl. 27; Martinez del Romero 1849, pp. 39, 156-57, nos. 990, 2316; Boeheim 1885, pp. 191-92; a of hair with two roses, one on either side, with brass Angelucci r886b, p. 159; Boeheim 1889, p. 393; Boeheim 1897, pp. 4 rivets. " Both examples may have been N egroli workshop 155-56; Valencia de Don juan 1898, pp. 133-35, pl. xvm; Calvert 1907, variants of the emperor's helmet and buffe. p. 106, pls. 30, 147; Laking 1920-22, vol. 4, pp. 145, 221, figs. 1230A, 1297; The signed and dated helmet and shield in Madrid provide Cripps-Day 1956, p. 86; Thomas and Gamber 1958, pp. 760,763, figs. important evidence in the study of the N egroli armor, as pp. 772, 775; Boccia and Coelho 1967, pp. 321-23,328-30, figs. 249-52, 255; Blair 1974, pp. 22-25; Eisler 1983, p. 103, figs. 13, 14; Scalini 1987, pp. one finds specific characteristics of their decoration repro­ 13-14,37, figs. 3, 3 bis, 6; Godoy 1989, p. 195, fig. p. 190; New York 1991, duced on other works attributed to Filippo. Most important, pp. 144-48, no. 22; Barcelona and Madrid 1992, pp. 152-55; Boccia the treatment of the lion's mane and the hair and beard on 1993, pp. 10-12; Brussels 1994, pp. 168-71.

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