[William Carew]

Hello everyone,

While searching for burgonets, I stumbled across this fascinating helmet, known as the Morosini Helmet. I don't normally go for the gaudy parade helmets of the 16th century, but I find this one strangely compelling, and absolutely fascinating.

Background can be found here:

http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2004/artexchan..._ss31.shtm

More pictures can be found here:

http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pdimage?1522+0

Cheers,

Bill