The First Tournament
Item
- Title
- The First Tournament
- Rights
- The British Museum, London. © The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence.
- Creator
- Lucas Cranach the Elder
- Date
- 1506 CE
- Description
- Image of the early medieval tournament. Lists used for jousting are in the center of a town square, combatants are engaged in a mass melee or mock battle. Spectators surround the knights viewing the entertainment. Shields of Saxon design are attached to a balcony of the surrounding buildings.
- Format
- Paper. 10in x 14.5in.
- Publisher
- The British Museum
- Contributor
- Samuel Schumacher
- Identifier
- The British Museum. 1895,0122.275
- Subject
- Knights; medieval; medieval tournament; melee; Saxon shields; joust
- Source
- Jpg file. The British Museum. 11/2/25. https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1895-0122-275
- Item sets
- Sam collection/item set
- Media
The First Tournament