The Palazzo Ducale Bascinet

The great bascinet at the Palazzo Ducale in Venice, Italy is one of the most curious medieval helmets to survive to the present day. Renowned armorer Robert “Mac“ MacPherson has built the world’s most accurate reproduction of this helmet with the help of Dr. Nicolas Baptiste, to better understand the real object and perhaps shed some light on the realities of a very misunderstood and often dismissed historical object. High resolution photo album of the reproduction helmet -