The show makes the argument that the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I used the symbolic power of armour and chivalry to advance his political and dynastic goals in Europe. Lent by the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes in France, the tapestry figures prominently in The Last Knight: The Art, Armor and Ambition of Maximilian I at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, an exhibition billed as the most comprehensive loan show of European arms and armour in decades. In its scale, detail and originality, the so-called Tournament Tapestry of Frederick the Wise may be the most striking object of its kind depicting knightly combat in the early Renaissance.
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