Date	Description	Source	Reference
1450’s - 1460’s	Right foreground.  Five bell tents and one pavilion.  White pavilion, triangular gold banners fly from either end of the pavilion’s roof, another banner flies a top a gold ball apex (above the pole which can be seen through the open door, thus I believe it is a picture of a three pole pavilion), the roof is red in colour divided by fore thin white vertical stripes, the valance is clearly defined, and some of the roof edge guy ropes can be seen.  Light purple bell tent, gold ball apex, lines on roof define the panels, two horizontal black lines define the valance, the walls are decorated in white and purple vertical stripes, the single point roof edge guy ropes and pegs can clearly be seen.  White bell tent, gold ball apex, two parallel horizontal black lines define the valance, the wall are decorated in white and red vertical stripes, the single point roof edge guy ropes and pegs can clearly be seen.  White bell tent, gold ball apex, two parallel horizontal black lines define the valance, the wall are decorated in white and orange vertical stripes, the single point roof edge guy ropes and pegs can clearly be seen.  Red bell tent, gold ball apex, two parallel horizontal black lines define the valance, the wall are decorated in thin gold lines (could be guy ropes) and red vertical stripes.  Blue bell tent, apex obscured by border, two parallel horizontal black lines define the valance, the wall are decorated in white and blue vertical stripes, the single point roof edge guy ropes and pegs can clearly be seen.  Middle Background.  Three red bell tents, four white bell tents, one gold bell tent, though little detail is evident.	Plate 27a, De Sphera, a) fol. 7v, The Planet Mars.  p. 36. XII. De Sphera, Modena, Biblioteca Estense, ?. 2.14 (Lat. 209)...  Figure 267 (this and face page). Anon. (Lombard), ‘Mars and his children.’ Miniature, mid-15thc. Moderna, Bibioteca Estenso, Ms. ‘De Spaera (Lat. 209).	Alexander, J.J.G., Italian Renaissance Illustrations, London, 1977, p. 92.  Hale, J.R., Artists and Warfare in the Renaissance, London, 1990, p. 212.

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