The Imperial Eagle (Aquila Imperialis)

Hans Burgkmair

1507 · Woodcut · Drawings and Prints

Crowned double-headed eagle, with a series of seven roundels descending at each side (at left, the six days of creation; at right, the seven mechanical arts). Below these are the escutcheons of the Empire (left) and Austria (right). At center, a fountain topped with Emperor Maximilian I on a throne, the nine muses in the basin at center, and Philosophia and the Seven Liberal Arts above the Judgment of Paris on the base. At top and bottom, excerpts of text by Conrad Celtis.

Artist

Hans Burgkmair

Date

1507

Medium

Woodcut

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926