Album of Tournaments and Parades in Nuremberg

Title: Album of Tournaments and Parades in Nuremberg
Rights: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, New York. Public Domain.
Date: ca. late sixteenth–mid-seventeenth century
Description: An illustration of a German parade. Two men astride horses are decorated with ornate armor and brightly colored fabrics. Small birds fly around them and two other individuals dressed in brightly colored, comical garments follow closely behind the men on horseback. This illustration is one of 112 in a manuscript which captured Renaissance ceremonial and tournament dress.
Format: Pen and ink, watercolor, gold and silver washes; paper bound in gold-tooled leather. 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).
Publisher: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Contributor: Joce Dolezal
Identifier: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 22.229.
Subject: Parades in Nuremberg; German Renaissance parades; parade armor; Renaissance armor; Gesellenstrechen; bachelors' jousts.
Source: Jpeg file. Unknown Photographer. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Digital Collection. 11/29/2023. https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/25111