Album of Tournaments and Parades in Nuremberg
Unknown Artist
late 16th–mid-17th century
Medium
Pen and ink, watercolor, gold and silver washes; paper bound in gold-tooled leather
Dimensions
cover: 14 x 10 3/8 in. (35.56 x 26.35 cm); page: 13 5/8 x 9 7/8 in. (34.61 x 25.08 cm)
Classification
Books & Manuscripts
Culture
German, Nuremberg
Department
Arms and Armor
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1922
Accession Number
22.229
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the vibrant world of Renaissance Nuremberg with this exquisite *Album of Tournaments andades*, created by an unknown artist between the late th and mid-17th centuries. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Arms and Armor Department, this German manuscript captures the city's grand civic spectacles—jousts, processions, and festive revels—that celebrated its prosperity as a hub of trade, craftsmanship, and imperial pageantry. Nuremberg's burghers proudly documented these events, blending martial tradition with communal joy in a time when such displays reinforced social bonds and civ...