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The Imperial Eagle (Aquila Imperialis)
1507
Hans Burgkmair German
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. |