The Battle of Fornovo

1495/1506

Master of the Battle of Fornovo

Associated Names
Master of the Battle of Fornovo

Artist, French, active c. 1495

This is a print of a battle scene. The print shows a wide landscape densely populated with armored figures engaged in combat. Some are on horseback, while others stand; some hold long lances while others have swords. In the center, there are groups of soldiers with long spears and cannons. To the left, there are trees with some people among them, some wearing hats. The left is a chaotic fight between people in armor holding long weapons and other people in hats with round shields. A river in the top third of the print roughly divides the scene; at the top, tents and encampments are seen in the background below rolling hills, with groups of soldiers standing together.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving printed on two sheets of laid paper joined at center

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 40.9 × 63 cm (16 1/8 × 24 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1952.8.5

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Shestack 1967, no. 261

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(William Schab, New York); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1952; gift to NGA, 1952.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1955

  • French Woodcuts, Engravings and Books of the 15th and Early 16th Centuries, The Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 1955.

1965

  • Master Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1965, no. 32.

1967

  • Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 261, repro.

1982

  • Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector, NGA, 1982, no. 55, repro.

1998

  • Love and War: A Manual for Life in the Late Middle Ages, National Gallery of Art, Washington; The Frick Collection, New York, 1998-99.

1999

  • The Medieval Housebook: The Real and the Ideal, A Fifteenth-Century View of Life, The Frick Collection, New York, 1999.

Bibliography

1967

  • Shestack, Alan. Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1967: no. 261.

Watermarks

column (close to Briquet 4386)

Wikidata ID

Q65362461

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