1512

Master of History, ‘The Second Expedition into Flanders’

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1512 A.D.

Left panel, left foreground. Twelve bell tents, two pavilions and one wedge tent.

White bell tent, two apexes close together (see Humble p.161 and Geisberg p. 582) which consist of a red banner a top a red ball on a pole, red line decoration on roof.

Yellow pavilion, alternate yellow then orange roof panels.

White bell tent, single apex (red banner, red ball on pole), blue line decoration on roof.

Yellow bell tent, single apex (red banner, red ball on pole), red line decoration on roof.

White bell tent, two apexes (red banner, red ball on pole), red line decoration on roof.

The rest of the tents in this encampment only have their roofs showing.

Left background.

Over thirty bell tents and a couple of pavilions, little detail evident.

Fig. 23. Master of History. ‘The Second Expedition into Flanders’. Large miniature, c.1512. Vienna, Albertina.

Hale, J.R., Artists and Warfare in the Renaissance, London, 1990, p. 14.

For another work by the 'Master of History' see;

The Betrothal of the Children of Maximillian and Charles the Bold

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