helmets (a pun in Italian), but they also sometimes wore another kind of metal, the slave collar. Paul H. D. Kaplan is Professor of Art History at Purchase College, SUNY. He is the author of “The Rise of the [...] installation in the American Pavilion at the 2003 Venice Biennale. He is a major contributor to volumes 2, 3 and 4 of Harvard University Press’s “The Image of the Black in Western Art” (new ed., 2010-2012), and