[from 'The Triumph of Maximilian I']
Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Date: c.1512 - 1519
Maker: Hans Burgkmair
Printer: Hans Burgkmair
Dimensions:
Image: 385 x 379 mm (38.5 x 37.9 cm)
Sheet: 385 x 552 mm (38.5 x 55.2 cm)
Medium: Black printing ink on laid paper
Object number: P.98
DescriptionThis is from the unfinished group of 137 woodcut prints from 'The Triumph of Maximilian I', commissioned by the Holy Roman Emperor (whose court was in Augsburg) Maximilian I in 1512, to celebrate the collective triumphs of his reign. This is number (or page) 26 in the Triumph of Maximilian I series which depicts a highly decorated cart of musicians and choral singers (this cart is being hauled by the two oxen found in P.111). A choir and musicians are on a decorated cart, they all wear Laurel wreaths (to celebrate the Emperor's Triumph). The cart itself is decorated with coats of arms, putti and the bust of a woman (Nike or Victory?) and other women who represent music. The choir sing from a large medieval choirbook, mounted on a lectern. The figure on the cart might possibly be Melancholy or Saturn. Imperial watermark visible. From Treitszaurwein's commentary on the Emperor's requirements (P.98 and P.111): "The cornet and trombones we placed / so that the choral song they graced / for His Imperial Majesty /
Has often in such harmony / Taken great pleasure, and rightly so / as we have had good cause to know".
Has often in such harmony / Taken great pleasure, and rightly so / as we have had good cause to know".
