The Maximilian Triumph

The tables published in this portfolio derive from an our elaboration on oldest drawing of hans Burgkmair. Between the end of 1400 and 1550 the art of tournaments among knights reaches its double quote. Maximilian Ist of Absburg is one of the more strong and convinced lover of this games. The cover horse and the heraldic of men are often painted by the greatest artists of the epoch. In the sometime develops also a whole literature that seen in the German Turniers buch their most interesting graphic representation.

Well artist know as Durer, Lucas Cranach, Altdorfer and Hans Burgkmair realize beautiful books of the tournaments and the triumphs of the renaissance knights of their times. Nothings to chisel, on tables in wood or cooper that then contemporary and modern artists often colorize. And in this tradition that our 15 tables are inserted by the particular graphics works of Luca Cristini and Carlo Pozzi.