# Morion from an all'Antica Set [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [UNKNOWN MASTER, Italian]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Blued, worked, gilded and silvered iron, 32 x 22 x 33 cm ## Commentary Morion from an all'Antica Set c. 1560 Blued, worked, gilded and silvered iron, 32 x 22 x 33 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna The morion, created by an anonymous Northern Italian master, was part of an all'antica set which belonged to Archduke Ferdinand II. The iron parts of the helmet were decorated with embossed, gold damascened and sumptuously executed mythological scenes. Evidence of the tradition of fantastic, bizarre helmet forms is already known in painting, drawing and other media as of the second half of the fifteenth century. examples are the <A onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/p/piero/2/8/8herac14.html'\)" HREF="/html/p/piero/2/8/8herac14.html">frescoes of Piero della Francesca</A> in Arezzo and the <A onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/l/leonardo/08heads/01helmet.html'\)" HREF="/html/l/leonardo/08heads/01helmet.html">drawing of Leonardo</A> in the British Museum, London. ## Related artworks - [A Bishop Saint]() - [A Curious Scene]() - [Adam and Eve; Cain and Abel]() - [Adoration of St Mark]() - [Allegorical Portrait of Dante]() - [Altar frontal]() - [Altarpiece \(detail\)]() - [Altarpiece of St Clare \(detail\)]() - [Altarpiece of St Clare \(detail\)]() - [Altarpiece of St Clare]() - [Altarpiece of the Magi]() - [Altarpiece]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()