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Description: | MANU Unknown c14th to 16th century Italy This round wood and leather shield, heavily decorated in relief with classical figures, is thought to have been in Hunter's original collection. It appears in an early account of the Museum's collections where it is described as a "Roman Target or Shield [of] great antiquity and workmanship." Surviving correspondence shows that in 1779 a Dr John Wilkinson offered to sell Hunter a "Roman shield made in the reign of Nero ? the Shield of Camillus" but we have no record of Hunter's reply. It is "a very important Renaissance parade shield with allegorical decoration from Milan at the time of Leonardo" - currently being researched by Leonardo and Renaissance expert, Professor Martin Kemp. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | PB_2007 : HISTORICAL COLLECTION : HIST_WEAPON : SHIELD : HUNTER_ANTIQUITY_2007 : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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