The World of the Holy Roman Emperor, Maximilian I: Imperial Identity in Manuscript and Print

The "Wedding Hours" is a highly important work of cultural heritage, and is of exceptional historical and art-historical value. This manuscript is the long-lost wedding gift created for Bianca Maria Sforza (1472-1510) upon her marriage to the Holy Roman Emperor elect, Maximilian I of Austria-Habsburg. The book was commissioned by the noblewoman’s uncle, Ludovico ‘Il Moro’ Sforza and not only testifies to the high level of Renaissance art made for the Sforza family in Milan, but also shows how art was used to link social, religious, and political life. Learn more: guenther-rareb...
MUSIC (in order of appearance)
"Omnes amici mei", Carlo Gesualdo (composer), performed by Vox Àltera Ensemble.
Renaissance lute, made by Francisco Hervás, Granada, Spain, in 1999.
Armonie pizzico plectrum orchestra pleWro performing a Renaissance Furlan music by Giorgio Mainerio. Arrangement by Miki Nishiyama.
La Danza (Capricci in musica a tre voci) by Vincenzo Ruffo (ca. 1510-1587).
IMAGES (in order of appearance)
Abstammung der europäischen Herrscherhäuser von Kaiser Ferdinand I. bzw. König Rudolf I. von Habsburg,
copperplate engraving, partly coloured, 38 x 95 cm, 18th century
Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain.
Maximilian I. of Austria
Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain.
Attributed to Michael Pacher, Mary of Burgundy, c. 1490. Oil on wood, 47,5 x 35 cm
Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain.
Albrecht Dürer, Portrait of Emperor Maximilian I, 1519.
Oil on limewood, 74 x 61.5 cm
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie, Inv. Nr. 825 Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain.
Ambrogio de Predis, Bianca Maria Sforza, c. 1493 Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art
Google Arts&Culture.
Ludovico Sforza, by G.A. de Predis, c.1496/1499, Mailand, Biblioteca Trivulziana, Ms. 2167, fol. 54r. Wikipedia Public Domain.
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