Visualizing the Fight Book Tradition: Collected Martial Knowledge in the Thun-Hohenstein Album

• Autore principale: Kirchhoff Chassica (Autore)
• Natura: Libro
• Pubblicazione: Bern Open Publishing, 2018-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Soggetti: article
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The Thun-Hohenstein album, long-known as the Thun'sche Skizzenbuch, is a bound collection of 112 drawings that visualize armoured figures at rest and in combat, as well as empty armours arrayed in pieces. The collection gathers drawings that span the period from the 1470s to around 1590. While...