Appendix 1 Views of Vienna: Selected Panoramas, Plans
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APPENDIX 1 VIEWS OF VIENNA: SELECTED PANORAMAS, PLANS, AND PICTORIAL REPORTS Part A: Images from before 1529 A-1) The Albertinian Plan, colored pen-and-ink drawing, late fifteenth cen- tury, based on an original from ca. 1421/1422, Vienna, Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien. A color photo is available online at http://www.oeaw.ac.at/ kmf/projekte/mhu/mhu_g.html . The image is reproduced as plate 19 in Eugen Oberhummer, Der Stadtplan, seine Entwickelung und geographische Bedeutung, offprint of Verhandlungen des XVI . Deutschen Geographentages zu N ü rnberg (Berlin: Reimer, 1907 ), p. 89 [66–101]. A schematic reproduction showing building position is included in the present volume as figure 2.1 . A-2) The Meeting of St. Joachim and St. Anne (Joachim und Anna begegnen einander an der goldenen Pforte), from the Albrecht Altar, by the Master of the Albrecht Altar. The altar was commissioned by Oswald Oberndorffer for the former Carmelite Church in Vienna in 1439, and is now housed at the Stiftsmuseum, Klosterneuburg. Black-and-white reproduction available in Alfred May, Wien in alten Ansichten: Das Werden der Wiener Vedute , Ö sterreich in alten Ansichten, 2 (Vienna: Verlag f ü r Jugend und Volk, 1965 ), plate 1; a color reproduction is available at http://english.habsburger.net/module-en/ zeichen-der-praesenz-wiener-kirchenstiftungen-der-habsburger/wiener-k irchenstiftungen-der-habsburger/MB-ST_R16-MOD2–01.jpg/ . A-3) Flight into Egypt (Flucht aus Ä gypten) of the Schottenaltar, by the Master of the Vienna Schottenstift, from the 1470s, housed at the Vienna Schottenstift. Color reproduction available in May, Wien in alten Ansichten , plate 2. A-4) St. Florian Crucifixion Triptych, by the Master of the Crucifixion Triptych, Stiftssammlungen St Florian, excerpt reproduced in Ferdinand Opll, “Das Antlitz der Stadt Wien am Ende des Mittelalters: Bekanntes und 164 APPENDIX 1 Neues zu den “Wien-Ansichten” auf Tafelbildern des 15. Jahrhunderts,” Jahrbuch des Vereines f ü r Geschichte der Stadt Wien 55 ( 1999 ): 136 [101–145]. A-5) Crucifixion, from the Mediasch Retable from Transylvania, from the 1480s, located at the Lutheran Church in Medias, Romania. Color repro- duction in Otto Folberth, Gotik in Siebenb ü rgen: Der Meister des Mediascher Altars und seine Zeit (Vienna and Munich: Anton Schroll, 1973 ), plate VII. A-6) Death of Friederich II “the Quarrelsome,” from the Babenberger Stammbaum, 1489–92, now housed at Stift Klosterneuburg. Color reproduc- tion in Floridus R ö hrig, Der Babenberger-Stammbaum im Stift Klosterneuburg (Vienna: Tusch, 1975 ), p. 95; and in May, Wien in alten Ansichten , plate 4. A-7) “Vienna Pannonie,” in Hartmann Schedel, Weltchronik [also published in Latin as Liber Cronicarum ] (Nuremberg, 1493), fols 98v–99r. Reproduced in Hartmann Schedel, Weltchronik: kolorierte Gesamtausgabe von 1493 , facsim- ile edition from the exemplar in Weimar, Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek (Sign. Inc. 119), ed. Stephan F ü ssel (Cologne: Taschen, 2001). Facsimile of “Vienna Pannonie” after Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, 2º Inc. C. A. 2920, reproduced in Elisabeth R ü cker, Die Schedelsche Weltchronik: Das gr ö sste Buchunternehmen der D ü rer-Zeit, Mit einem Katalog der St ä dteansichten (Munich: Prestel, 1973, rev. 1988), plate 31, pp. 208–9; black-and-white reproduction in May, Wien in alten Ansichten , plate 5, where the image is attributed to Michel Wolgemut. A-7a) “Vienna Pannonie,” in the pirated edition of Hartmann Schedel, Weltchronik (Augsburg: Johann Schö nsperger, 1497), sold at auction by Paulus Swaen, http://www.swaen.com/antique-map-of.php?id=12116 . A-8) “Aller heyligen Thuemkirchen Sand Steffan Mit dem Turn und ander schigkligkait . ,” woodcut from Matthä us Heuperger, Weiner Heilthumbuch (Vienna: Johann Winterburger, 1502). Copy from the Vienna Dom- und Di ö zesanmuseum Prot.-Nr. L-83 consulted from the copy posted by Oliver de Minnebach on http://www.burgenseite.com/forum/viewthread . php?tid=1049. Facsimile: Das Wiener Heiligthumbuch: Nach der Ausgabe vom Jahre 1502 sammt den Nachtr ä gen von 1514 mit Unterst ü tzung des K . K . Handelsministeriums, [facsimile edition], introduction by Franz Ritter, Ö sterreichisches Museum f ü r Kunst und Industrie (Vienna: Gerold, 1882). Part B: Images from 1529 to the late sixteenth century B-1) [Hans Sebald Beham] / Niclas Meldemann, The Siege of Vienna, 1529 , Nuremberg: Niclas Meldemann, 1530, woodcut, handcolored. Vienna, Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien. [Referenced hereafter as Beham/ VIEWS OF VIENNA 165 Meldemann.] Reproduced in Historischer Atlas von Wien ; reproduced in poster format as “Rundansicht der Stadt Wien zur Zeit der Tü rkenbelagerung, 1529,” Niklas Meldemann, N ü rnberg 1530, HM Inv. Nr. 48068, Facsimile c. 1994, Museen der Stadt Wien, Druckerei Gert Herzig, Wien. B-2) Erhard Sch ö n / Hans Guldenmund, “Belagerung Wiens durch die Turken 1529,” woodcut. Vienna, Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien. Original consulted at Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien. [Referenced hereafter as Sch ö n/Guldenmund.] Reproduced in Max Geisberg, The German Single-Leaf Woodcut, 1500–1550 [originally published as Der deutsche Einblatt Holzschnitt ], rev. ed. Walter L. Strauss (New York: Hacker Art Books, 1974), vol. 4, pp. 1196–97; also available at www.zeno.org/ nid/20004285840 . [Referenced hereafter as Sch ö n/Guldenmund.] This image is item 241 in Heinrich Rö ttinger, Erhard Sch ö n und Niklas St ö r, der pseudo-Sch ö n: zwei Untersuchungen zur Geschichte des alten N ü rnberger Holzschnittes , Studien zur deutschen Kunstgeschichte, 229 (Strassburg: J.H.E. Heitz, 1925 ), pp. 172–74. As Rö ttinger establishes, the woodcut of four leaves parallels the descriptions in Hans Sachs “Historia der t ü rkischen belegerung der stat Wien . Anno 1529.” Albert R. v. Camesina prepared a lithographic reproduction in 1869; the Dresden S ä chsische Landesbibliothek provides a digital copy, Deutsche Fotothek df_dk_0011133: http://www.deutschefotothek.de/obj90008884. html . (See also http://digital.slub-dresden.de/ppn318881039 .) B-3) Tomb of Count Niklas Salm, attributed to sculptor Loy Hering after designs by J ö rg Breu, 1530–35, commissioned by Archduke Ferdinand I, originally in St. Dorothea Church; now located in the Votivkirche, Vienna. On Breu’s contributions to the tomb, see Gert von der Osten and Horst Vey, Painting and Sculpture in Germany and the Netherlands: 1500 – 1600 , translated by Mary Hottinger, The Pelican History of Art (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1969), p. 117. Details of the tomb’s reliefs and the various portrait medal- lions are indexed in Peter Reindl, Loy Hering: Zur Rezeption der Renaissance in S ü ddeutschland (Basel: H. Leidenfrost, 1977), pp. 437–41; further infor- mation can be found in Wien 1529: Die erste T ü rkenbelagerung [exhibition catalog], Sonderausstellung des Historischen Museums der Stadt Wien, Karlsplatz, 62 (Vienna: Hermann B ö hlaus, 1979), pp. 38–40. The images of the two reliefs that represent the Siege of Vienna are reproduced as plates 2 and 12 of Johann Newald, “Niclas Graf zu Salm: Eine historische Studie,” Berichte und Mittheilungen des Alterthums-Vereines zu Wien , 18 (1879): 1–122; see also Newald’s identification of city landmarks on p. 95. B-4) Bonifaz Wolmuet, ground-plan of Vienna, 1547. Studied through the color lithographic reproduction by Albert Camesina of 1857/1858, available http://www.wien.gv.at/kultur/kulturgut/karten/wolmuet/index.html . 166 APPENDIX 1 B-5) Augustin Hirschvogel, ground plan of Vienna, 1547 (B&W print, 1552), available http://www.wien.gv.at/kultur/kulturgut/karten/hirsch- vogel/index.html B-5a) Augustin Hirschvogel, ground plan of Vienna, colored wood engraving on round table, 1549, examined at the Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien. B-6a) Augustin Hirschvogel, etched view of Vienna from the South, “Conterfetung der Stat Wien durch Augus[tin] Hirschfo[gel],” 1547, Commissioned by the Vienna City Council. Examined in a facsimile copy from Albertina, Inv. Nr. DG 1930/2164 in the Historischer Atlas von Wien . Also available as May, Wien in alten Ansichten , plate 7. B-6a1) [Sebastian M ü nster] (adapted from Hirschvogel,Vienna from the South), “Vienna Austriae: Metropolis, Urbs Toto Orbe Notissima Celearatissimaq. Unicum Hodie in Oriente Contra Saevissimum Turcam Invictum Propugnaculum.” Published in Civitates Orbis Terrarum, vol. I (Cologne: 1572). Notably adds horse-drawn carriage preceded by lance-bearing rider in fore- ground and two pedestrians headed toward the city. The image from the 1572 edition is available at the “Historic Cities” web- site, ed. Ronnie Ellenblum, Historic Cities Research Center, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, http://historic-cities.huji.ac.il/mapmakers/braun_ hogenberg.html . It was reprinted in Georg Braun, Civitates orbis terrarum (Coloni æ Agrippin æ : Apud Bertramum Bochholtz sumptibus auctorum, 1599), available in electronic facsimile (Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005), vol. 1, image 104 [text] and 105 [etching]. An undated copy also from Civitates orbis terrarum is provided as “Vienna, another view: from Braun and Hogenberg’s ‘Civitates Orbis Terrarum,’” Shakespeare Quarterly , 13 (1962): 286, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2866817 . B-6b) Augustin Hirschvogel, etched view of Vienna from the North, “Ware Conterfetung der Stat Wien durch Augus[tin] Hirs[chvogel],” 1547, Commissioned by the Vienna City Council. Examined in a facsimile copy from Albertina, Inv. Nr. DG 1930/2165 in the Historischer Atlas von Wien . Also available as May, Wien in alten Ansichten