Nicolas Bellin or Niccolo da Modena was an Italian artist at the English court. He came to England from the works of Francis II of France at Fontainebleau, and worked at Nonsuch Palace for Henry VIII. He continued to work for Edward VI. As well as decorative painting for the Tudor palaces, "Nicholas Modena", as he was known in England, made masque costumes, papier-mâché and boiled leather ornament, and leather horse-armour known as barding. His revels costumes included leather garments for wild-men who acted as torch-bearers, equipped with helmets, staves, and clubs He made wigs for masque dancers. He decorated a pageant stage called the "mount" with terracotta and plaster of paris ornanments and other moulding compounds. He made leather horse armour used against the Scots at the battle of Pinkie during the war known as the Rough Wooing.

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Nicolas Bellin or Niccolo da Modena was an Italian artist at the English court. He came to England from the works of Francis II of France at Fontainebleau, and worked at Nonsuch Palace for Henry VIII. He continued to work for Edward VI. As well as decorative painting for the Tudor palaces, "Nicholas Modena", as he was known in England, made masque costumes, papier-mâché and boiled leather ornament, and leather horse-armour known as barding.