Sujet

Presentation piece to the Emperor Charles V., 1861. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Presentation piece to the Emperor Charles V., 1861. '...an ornament in silver, quaint in design but beautiful exceedingly in workmanship, which is supposed to have been given to Charles V. in commemoration of the stupendous victory obtained by his forces over Francis I., at the battle of Pavia, in 1526. The original forms part of the celebrated Ambras Collection, in the Belvidere at Vienna. This collection takes its name from the Castle of Ambras, near Inspruck, in the Tyrol, which belonged to the Archduke Ferdinand..., a Prince who, full of the revived spirit of learning which arose in the sixteenth century, commenced, about the year 1570, the most splendid collection of works of art of every kind then existing, and named it the Chamber of Arms, Arts, and Curiosities...It is, perhaps, the most interesting historical collection in the world, and has preserved for us all that was remarkable in armour and arms, in the arts of sculpture and painting, the industrial arts, the literature, printed and in manuscript, not of Europe only, but also of the East...No lover of the arts, the literature, the history of the sixteenth century should fail to visit Vienna in order to study these and countless other antiquities...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1861.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM23B24_310

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

7,4Mo (507,8Ko) / 10,6cm x 17,6cm / 1249 x 2077 (300dpi)

Mots clés

arts country metal Austria art British museum color decoration decorative ornate silver ornament Austrian war location collection century Britain newspapers press print concept battle decorated B&W engraved engraving Colour 19th century black & white black and white B W white and black 16th century nineteenth century sixteenth century The Print Collector Battle of Pavia Illustrated London News ILN newspaper object Unknown Charles I Emperor Charles V Charles V King Charles V of Castile Carlos V Carlos I Charles Quint Charles I of Spain Ferdinand II Holy Roman Emperor Archduke of Austria Charles V of Austria 19th-century Ambras Collection Belvedere Museum Archduke of Further Austria