红衣主教伊波利托·德·美第奇（1511–1535）的骑士头像 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	红衣主教伊波利托·德·美第奇（1511–1535）的骑士头像
品名（英）	Horseman’s Ax of Cardinal Ippolito de’ Medici (1511–1535)
入馆年号	1993年，1993.61
策展部门	武器和盔甲（Arms and Armor）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1505 - 公元 1560
创作地区	原产国: 意大利（Country of Origin: Italy）
分类	带柄武器（Shafted Weapons）
尺寸	长 30 3/4 英寸 (78.1 厘米); 长 of axe head 5 1/4 英寸 (13.3 厘米); 重 2 磅 8 盎司 (1134 g)
介绍（中）	这把比例优雅、装饰精美的斧头可能更像是权威的象征，而不是骑马作战的武器。表面被蚀刻并在倾斜的阴影地面上镀金，以早期意大利装饰版画的方式。斧刃的一侧进一步装饰着盾牌，盾牌包围着美第奇的手臂，边缘有拉丁文铭文 BENIFICIVM ·丹多 ·阿克皮特 ·QVI ·迪尼奥 ·DEDIT（如果他将福利给予一个值得的人，那么他就得到了一个好处），另一边有一个充气足球般的装置和铭文法伦蒂·非 ·轻松 ·RVRSVS ·阿迪本达 ·EST（信任不再轻易放在那些曾经被欺骗的人身上）。虽然充气球被美第奇家族的几位成员用作个人徽章，但这里它很可能指的是红衣主教伊波利托·德·美第奇（1511-1535），一位年轻的主教，穿着盔甲而不是他的猩红色长袍。1532年，伊波利托在匈牙利指挥了一支远征土耳其人的远征，这一事件在佛罗伦萨乌菲齐的提香肖像中永垂不朽，红衣主教穿着匈牙利士兵的异国情调的服装。这把斧头很可能伴随着伊波利托的那场战役。近两个世纪以来，一个大型军械库占据了乌菲齐美术馆上层的一套画廊，在那里展示了佛罗伦萨美第奇统治者的王朝收藏品。源源不断的本地和外国游客看到了军械库，他们惊叹于名人佩戴的马具、早期的好奇武器和来自东方的华丽珠宝武器。博物馆的斧头无疑在伊波利托死后作为纪念品进入军械库，但它仅在 1695 年佛罗伦萨美第奇军械库的清单中清晰可辨，在那里它被描述为有一个镶嵌着黄铜钉子的木制哈夫特和玫瑰花结头。现在的哈夫特是现代的替代品。1775年，当美第奇收藏品重组时，大部分军械库被出售。分散将内容散落得很远很远，但其中超过六件武器已经进入了大都会的收藏。
介绍（英）	This elegantly proportioned and delicately ornamented ax probably served more as a symbol of authority than as a weapon for mounted warfare. The surfaces are etched and gilt with foliage on an obliquely hatched ground, in the manner of early-Italian ornamental prints. The ax blade is further decorated on one side with a shield enclosing the Medici arms and a Latin inscription around the edges BENIFICIVM · DANDO · ACCEPIT · QVI · DIGNO · DEDIT (He who confers a benefit has received one if he has given it to a man worthy of it), and on the other side with the device of an inflatable soccerlike ball and the inscription FALLENTI · NON · FACILE · RVRSVS · ADHIBENDA · EST (Trust is not again to be placed easily in those who have once deceived). Although the inflatable ball was used as a personal badge by several members of the Medici family, here it most likely refers to Cardinal Ippolito de' Medici (1511–1535), a youthful prelate more at home in armor than his scarlet robes of office. In 1532 Ippolito commanded an expedition against the Turks in Hungary, an event immortalized in Titian's portrait in the Uffizi, Florence, in which the cardinal wears the exotic costume of a Hungarian soldier. This ax very likely accompanied Ippolito on that campaign. For almost two centuries a large armory occupied a suite of galleries on the upper floor of the Uffizi, where the dynastic collections of the Medici rulers of Florence were displayed. The armory was seen by a steady stream of local and foreign visitors who marveled at harnesses worn by famous men, curious weapons of earlier times, and richly jeweled arms from the Orient. The Museum's ax undoubtedly entered the armory as a memento of Ippolito following his death, but it is only clearly identifiable in an inventory of the Medici armory in Florence in 1695, where it is described as having a wooden haft studded with brass nails with rosette heads. The present haft is a modern replacement. In 1775, when the Medici collections were reorganized, a large portion of the armory was sold. The dispersal scattered the contents far and wide, but more than a half dozen of these arms have entered the Metropolitan's collection.