Court messenger and peasant costumes, 1460 – 1500. Medieval gothic, burgundy fashion history.
Court messenger and peasant costumes, 15th century.
Category: Germany
The Schaller. Helmet and neck cover from the 15th century.
Gothic armor. This iron helmet, also called the Schaller or Salade. Helmet and neck cover (beard hood) from the 15th century. Characteristic is its streamlined shape.
Imperial Herald and Lansquenet 1510-1550, by Hans Holbein.
Imperial Herald from the first half of the 16th century. Colored pen drawings by Hans Holbein. Garb of the common lansquenets.
Prussian army uniforms c. 1870. Franco-Prussian war.
The Royal Prussian Army. Sub officer-bearer of the 2nd Guard Regiment. Officer 4th Regiment of the Queen Augusta.
Tannhäuser. Elizabeth, the Landgravine. Richard Wagner.
Tannhäuser. Elizabeth, the Landgravine. ELIZABETH is kneeling at the shrine in prayer for Tannhäuser, when she hears the chorus of the band of returning pilgrims, of whom he was one.
Torquato Tasso and Leonora d’Este. A drama by J. W. von Goethe.
Torquato Tasso and Leonora d’Este is a drama in five acts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The Italian poet Torquato Tasso is the focus of the action.
Nathan the Wise. The Sultan Saladin and his Sister Sittah.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s Nathan the Wise. The action takes place during the Third Crusade (1189-1192) during a truce in Jerusalem. The work has as main topics the humanism and tolerance ideas of the Enlightenment.
Undine by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué.
Undine THE seas, the rivers and brooks contain the numberless tribes of Water-sprites. * * * * *
Rhinegold. Alberich’s Pursuit of the Nibelungen Ring.
RHEINGOLD (The Rhinegold) is the prelude to the music-drama of the “Ring of the Nibelung.” The first scene of the opera shows the depths of the river Rhine.
Kriemhild at Siegfried’s Bier. The Nibelungenlied. Medieval epic.
KRIEMHILD, daughter of Dancrat and sister of Gunther, King of Burgundy.
She first married Siegfried, King of the Netherlanders, who was murdered by Hagan.
