A Highly Rare and Important Bavarian 'Black' Sallet, ca. 1490

[A Senefelder]

One of my favorites by Durer. It gives a window into that era where gothic and maximillian style armour co-exist and intermingle in the first years of the 16th century. Notable in the woodcut is lack of greaves with an otherwise complete gothic harness ( an increasingly common fashion as the century progressed ) and a feeling for how really large the " black sallet " could be when compared to its more form fitting kin.