Francesco Filotico – Lioba Geis – Francesco Somaini (eds.), Germania et Italia. Liber amicorum Hubert Houben (MEDIETAS. Collana del Centro Studi Medievali Unisalento, 1, Università del Salento 2024), 565–591., 2024
The article is focussing on the question of realism in early town views based on the example of t... more The article is focussing on the question of realism in early town views based on the example of the city of Vienna. Vienna's pictorial tradition starts as one of the earliest north of the Alps with on the one hand a proper town map ("Albertinischer Stadtplan" in the context of the reception of the work of Ptolemy's Geographia in the 1420s and on the other hand a series of proper town views imbedded in liturgical settings (altarpieces, manuscipts etc.) from the late 1440s onwards. In two special chapters the "Albertinischer Stadtplan" and parts of the great winged altars, like the "Albrechtsaltar" and the big Altar of the Scot's Monastery in Vienna are being analysed pointing towards "realistic" elements like identifiable buildings and details of the Viennese "land-" and "townscape".
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elephant in Vienna as a gift from the Spanish Habsburgs around the middle of the 16th century. The abundance of written and pictorial sources relating to this event makes it possible to compile a biography of this creature. The stops along its journey to Central Europe are lined with visual testimonies. After the beast’s premature death, some of its bones provided material for the production of a ceremonial chair, which still exists today, and the mount made from the elephant’s remains survived until the Second World War. In the early 1560s, a second elephant arrived in Vienna and subsequently lived at the Habsburg court for a much longer period of time. New research has also produced a wealth of pictorial material, and the animal’s public appearance during a wedding celebration in Prague in 1570, largely staged by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, was a subject of particular fascination.
elephant in Vienna as a gift from the Spanish Habsburgs around the middle of the 16th century. The abundance of written and pictorial sources relating to this event makes it possible to compile a biography of this creature. The stops along its journey to Central Europe are lined with visual testimonies. After the beast’s premature death, some of its bones provided material for the production of a ceremonial chair, which still exists today, and the mount made from the elephant’s remains survived until the Second World War. In the early 1560s, a second elephant arrived in Vienna and subsequently lived at the Habsburg court for a much longer period of time. New research has also produced a wealth of pictorial material, and the animal’s public appearance during a wedding celebration in Prague in 1570, largely staged by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, was a subject of particular fascination.