The strangest helm of all time?

[Arthes]

If the kids who come see it don't go crazy over the helmet, they get all riled up from the large, circular codpiece. :roll:

Yes, I think I know the one you mean, you can't miss it...... :oops:

[Jeroen Pelgrom]

Drawings of original 'ancient Roman helms'

Pegaso models has a miniature of a Renaissance Knight in "Roman Armour" (XV century) with such a helmet!:

[url:2nplzcgn]http://www.pegasomodels.com/details_en.asp?code=75-022[/url]

[Robert Vermaat]

Peturiges at the knees - great!

[A_Volpe]

Arthes -

Oh yeah if it's not the codpieces, it's that cursed Chastity Belt Higgins has. :roll:

Sometimes the kids figure it out, but it's usually the adults who get all giggly and pointy and asking if it's real (it's not)

Oh yeah there's also the Foot Tourney armor (Maximillian style) that has a bright blue "skirt", if I had a nickle for each time....Sigh...Something with a rather simple explanation but brings SO many modern social/moral questions, people can make things way more complicated than they need to sometimes :lol:

[Marcus F.]

Armet with Mask Visor, ca. 1520–25
German (Nuremberg) or Austrian (Innsbruck)
Steel; Wt. 7 lb. 2 oz. (3.2 kg)
Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913 (14.25.562)

[tlclark]

Drawings of original 'ancient Roman helms'

Pegaso models has a miniature of a Renaissance Knight in "Roman Armour" (XV century) with such a helmet!:

[url:35h3kj1b]http://www.pegasomodels.com/details_en.asp?code=75-022[/url]

The Renaissance interpretation of Roman art is just amazing. There are some great parade "Roman" pieces from the Renaissance in the Philly Museum. Fabulous stuff.

[hoplite14gr]

The Renaissance was the start of Baroque.
Not only fine arts but armor making started following the trent.
Kind regards