How the French King made war on the King of Feuereisen in his realm and how the King of Feuereisen died in the battle
1512–16
Hans Burgkmair
Hans Burgkmair (German, 1473–1531)
Prints
Der Weisskunig (The White King): How the French King made war on the King of Feuereisen in his realm and how the King of Feuereisen died in the battle, 1512–16. Hans Burgkmair (German, 1473–1531). Woodcut; sheet: 22.1 x 19.7 cm (8 11/16 x 7 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1960.30 Throughout the 1200s, the French relied on heavy cavalry as the mainstay of mounted shock combat, a military development that shifted the focus from the axe-wielding infantry man to the heavily armored, lance-carrying knight.
- Maker/Artist
- Burgkmair, Hans, the elder
- Classification
- Formatted Medium
- woodcut
- Medium
- woodcut
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 22.1 x 19.7 cm (8 11/16 x 7 3/4 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: lower center, in block: H·B ; VERSO, lower left, in graphite: Liechtenstein [fr.?] 104 / No. 52 ; lower left, in graphite: [illegible] ; lower right, in graphite: 07
- Departments
- Prints
- Accession Number
- 1960.30
- Credit Line
- Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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