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Closed Sallet with Grotesque Face (Schembart visor)
The collection record classifies this work as arms and armor. It is dated c. 1500. Recorded culture or place: Germany, Nuremberg.
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- Museum title
- Closed Sallet with Grotesque Face (Schembart visor)
- Date
- c. 1500
- Culture / origin
- Germany, Nuremberg
- Materials and technique
- painted steel
- Dimensions
- Overall: 27.3 x 25.7 x 22.2 cm (10 3/4 x 10 1/8 x 8 3/4 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1916.1646
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
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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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance · CC0
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