- Filippo Negroli
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name = Filippo Negroli
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birth_date = c1510
birth_place = Milan
death_date = death year and age|1579|1510
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significant_awards =Filippo Negroli (ca. 1510–1579) was an
armourer fromMilan . He was renowned as being extremely skilled, and may be considered the most famous armourer of all time. Working together with his younger brothers Giovan Battista (ca. 1511-1591) and Francesco (ca. 1522-1600) in the Negroli family workshop headed by their father Gian Giacomo Negroli (ca. 1463-1543), Filippo was specialized inrepoussé of armour, whereas his brother Francesco was renowned for hisdamascening skills. Filippo's pieces are considered especially remarkable because they were wrought in steel, rather than the more-easily worked iron that was the traditionally assumed medium.He made
parade armour for several esteemed clients, includingCharles V, Holy Roman Emperor andGuidobaldo II della Rovere .References
* [http://www.metmuseum.org/TOAH/hd/make/hd_make.htm Famous Makers and European Centers of Arms and Armor Production] . The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
* Fred Stern. [http://www.artnet.com/magazine_pre2000/features/stern/stern11-17-98.asp Did Napoleon wear armor?] , artnet.com - magazine.
* Alan R. Willliams. [http://www.jstor.org/pss/1513048 The Steel of the Negroli] . The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
* Stuart W. Pyhrr and Jose-A. Godoy. [http://www.amazon.com/Italian-Renaissance-Filippo-Negroli-Contemporaries/dp/0300086180 Heroic Armor of the Italian Renaissance] . The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Persondata
NAME=Negroli, Filippo
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SHORT DESCRIPTION=Armourer
DATE OF BIRTH=c1510
PLACE OF BIRTH=Milan
DATE OF DEATH=1579
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