File:Design for a Stained Glass Window for Christoph von Eberstein, by Hans Holbein the Younger.jpg
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Design for a Stained Glass Window for Christoph von Eberstein. Pen and ink and brush, grey, green, and red washes, over preliminary drawing in black crayon, 29.1 × 33.2 cm, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashmolean_Museum" class="extiw" title="w:Ashmolean Museum">Ashmolean Museum</a>, Oxford.
The drawing depicts a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landsknecht" class="extiw" title="w:Landsknecht">landsknecht</a>, a German mercenary pikeman, wearing the peacock feather and saltire crosses of the Habsburgs. On the right is the crest of Christoph von Eberstein, and in the background a landscape. These elements are set within an arch on which two soldiers—the one on the left imperial, the one on the right a Swiss confederate—engage lances with each other. Count Christoph von Eberstein (1502–27) was a renowned landsknecht commander. In April 1522, the landsknechts inflicted a heavy defeat on the Swiss confederates at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bicocca" class="extiw" title="w:Battle of Bicocca">Battle of Bicocca</a> (Müller, 276).
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| current | 06:31, 22 December 2016 | | 2,343 × 2,690 (3.08 MB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:77px;"> <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eberstein_Scheibler102ps.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Eberstein_Scheibler102ps.jpg/75px-Eberstein_Scheibler102ps.jpg" width="75" height="112" class="thumbimage" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Eberstein_Scheibler102ps.jpg/113px-Eberstein_Scheibler102ps.jpg 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Eberstein_Scheibler102ps.jpg/150px-Eberstein_Scheibler102ps.jpg 2x" data-file-width="915" data-file-height="1365"></a> <div class="thumbcaption"> <div class="magnify"><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eberstein_Scheibler102ps.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Eberstein Coat of Arms</div> </div></div> <p><i><b>Design for a Stained Glass Window for Christoph von Eberstein</b></i>. Pen and ink and brush, grey, green, and red washes, over preliminary drawing in black crayon, <span style="white-space:nowrap"> 29.1 × 33.2 cm</span>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashmolean_Museum" class="extiw" title="w:Ashmolean Museum">Ashmolean Museum</a>, Oxford. </p> The drawing depicts a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landsknecht" class="extiw" title="w:Landsknecht">landsknecht</a>, a German mercenary pikeman, wearing the peacock feather and saltire crosses of the Habsburgs. On the right is the crest of Christoph von Eberstein, and in the background a landscape. These elements are set within an arch on which two soldiers—the one on the left imperial, the one on the right a Swiss confederate—engage lances with each other. Count Christoph von Eberstein (1502–27) was a renowned landsknecht commander. In April 1522, the landsknechts inflicted a heavy defeat on the Swiss confederates at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bicocca" class="extiw" title="w:Battle of Bicocca">Battle of Bicocca</a> (Müller, 276). |
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