Word: missaglia
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...Vinci and Cellini for helmet designs and devices that were etched, gilded, embossed and damascened on the steel plate. The best Florentine painters of the day were called on to decorate ceremonial shields and banners. So dazzling were the results that one of Milan's great armorers, Tomaso Missaglia, was not only knighted but exempted from all taxes as well. Such splendid casques as Milan's other great armorer, Philip de Negroli, made for France's Francis I, with tendrils, flowers and cupids sculptured in cold steel, earned him the title. "The Michelangelo of Armorers...
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