Spearhead

Description Ancient arms and armor were favored by many collectors. Products of the mysterious Etruscan culture (their language remains indecipherable) in what is now Tuscany in Italy, however, were found in only a few collections, such as that of the Medicis in Florence and Duke Albert V in Munich.

Exhibitions

• Again: Arms and Armor. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore. 1940.

Provenance Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902