The Storming of Nantes
Hans Burgkmair (German, 1473–1531)
1512–15
- Medium
- woodcut
- Classification
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 23.2 x 19.7 cm (9 1/8 x 7 3/4 in.); Image: 21.7 x 19.7 cm (8 9/16 x 7 3/4 in.)
- Culture
- Germany
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Prints
- Credit line
- Dudley P. Allen Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
In this woodcut armored cavalry with lances approach from the left. The town itself is ringed by artillery, as attacking infantry rush through the breached fortifications. Note the use of halberds and pikes, close combat weapons in which the main fighting part is fitted to the end of a long shaft, typically of wood, which extends the user's range and striking power.
