Sujet

Equestrian Combat with Lance and Sword; Fior di Battaglia, about 1410. Creator: Fiore Furlan dei Liberi da Premariacco.

Légende

Equestrian Combat with Lance and Sword; Fior di Battaglia, about 1410. Additional info: Like people today, people of the medieval and Renaissance periods read how-to books. This manuscript by the greatest fencing-master of the late 1300s, Fiore Furlan dei Liberi da Premariacco, instructs the reader in the intricacies of combat. Lively illustrations of charging horses and armoured knights accompany the text. Through words and pictures, the manuscript teaches a variety of fighting techniques including single combat on foot with sword, dagger, and axe, and also mounted combat in all its variations. Nicolò III d'Este, ruler of Ferrara, ordered at least three copies of this text, including this one. Nicolò's interest in such a manual was quite natural, since fighting played an important role in the education of young nobleman, and he himself was raising three sons.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

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HRM24A75_056

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Droits gérés

Format disponible

40,0Mo (1,6Mo) / 26,4cm x 38,0cm / 3117 x 4485 (300dpi)

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