Dodgson, Campbell: Catalogue of early German and Flemish woodcuts: preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (Band 1): [German and Flemish woodcuts of the XV century] (London, 1903)

Bivision A.—School of Nuremberg.—Traut.

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[14-17.]

FOUR HISTORICAL SUBJECTS FROM THE TRIUMPHAL
ARCH OF MAXIMILIAN I.

On the arch in general, see pp. 311-321 ; on the historical subjects,
pp. 321-328. Traut’s share in designing the latter was definecl by Dr.
W. Schmidt in Clironili f. vervielf. Kunst, 1891, iv, 9. The following
diagrams show it at a glance:—

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Edition of
i 1885-6,
pl. 20.

Edition of
1885-6,
pl. 19.

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18

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Edition of
1885-6,
pl. 26.

Edition of
1885-6,
pl. 25.

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5

6

7

8

9

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11

12

The subjects are the following :—

(1) Maximilian as patron of improvements in artillery, armour, etc.

(4) The Battle of Guinegate.

(5) The first War in Gueldres.

(6) The Siege of Utrecht.

(7) The first Flemish Rebellion.

(8) The War with Liege.

(9) The Coronation as King of the Romans.

(11) Maximilian makes peace with Henry VII.

(12) Maximilian avenges the insult to his daughter.

(16) The Swiss War.

(17) The expulsion of the French from the Kingdom of Naples.

(18) The Bavarian War.

Subjects (1) ancl (9) do not occur in the separate editions, while (11)
is represented there (except in Glax D) by a clifferent woodcut, not by
Traut. The reacler may like to be reminded that subjects (2), (3), (10),

(13), (14), (19), (20), (21), in the edition of 1885-6, are by Springinklee,
subjects (15), (22) and (23) by Diirer. Subject (24), omitted in the
eclitions previous to 1559, was supplied by an unknown artist of that
period.

All the subjects by Traut are represented in this Department on the
first edition of the complete arch. With the exception of nos. (1), (9)