Cleveland Museum of Art
Peaked Morion
- Date
- c. 1580–90
- Medium
- etched russet steel with traces of gilding; roped brim, brass plume holder
- Culture
- North Italy, Milan?, 16th century
- Department
- Medieval Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Originally this helmet was topped with a feathered plume. The Swiss Guard, a regiment of soldiers that has guarded the Vatican since the 16th century, wear similar looking peaked morions today, though theirs are adorned with voluminous ostrich feather plumes.
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