About This Artwork

Italian, Venice

Parade Shield for Bodyguard of Archbishop Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau of Salzburg (1559-1617), 1590

Wood, covered with tooled and painted leather
Diameter 57.1 cm (22 1/2 in.)
Wt. 5 lb. 13 oz.
George F. Harding Collection, 1982.2262

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Walter Karchieski, "Arms and Armor in the Art Institute of Chicago" (Art Institute of Chicago/Little, Brown, and Company, 1995), p. 56 (ill.)