Two Scenes of Armies Fighting / Anonymous / Lucas Cranach, the Elder?

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Accession Number: 2012/2.180
Title: Two Scenes of Armies Fighting
Artist: Anonymous
Medium and Support: woodcut on laid paper
Credit Line: Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
Dimensions: 17.78 cm x 15.24 cm (7 in. x 6 in.)
Physical Description: This woodcut features a multitude of armored figures streaming out of a walled town—the main gate of which is visible in the center background of the composition—into a hilly countryside as they engage in battle. Nearly every figure carries a lance. Several figures in the foreground are on horseback and encounter an opposing group in battle. Figures on the left and right edges of the composition carry differing raised flags.
Subject Matter: A battle scene with figures with lances and several on horseback.
Primary Keywords: battles; equestrians; flags; lances
Secondary Keywords: armed conflicts; edged weapons; events; identifying artifacts; information artifacts; information artifacts by function; information forms; objects we use; people; people (agents); people and culture; people by activity; spears (weapons); spears by form; staff weapons; weapons; weapons and ammunition
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Collection: University of Michigan Museum of Art
Image Size: 2333 x 2857
File Size: 892 KB
Record: 2012/2.180
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2012-sl-2.180/2012_2_180.jpg

In public portfolios: Death and dying (500); Death in the Middle Ages (29); Northern Renaissance and Reformation-era (138); Warfare, combat, battle (154)

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Full citation: "Two Scenes of Armies Fighting; Anonymous; Lucas Cranach, the Elder?." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2012-sl-2.180/2012_2_180.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 03, 2024.