Pieter Coecke van Aelst - Customs and Manners of the Turks

 Salvete Omnes,

Suleiman the Magnificent 

the XVI century Flemish architect and artist (see the list of his mastery) Pieter Coecke van Aelst  produced a freeze-like series of 10 prints titled - Ces Moeurs et fachons de faire de Turcz (Customs and Fashions of the Turks)  - circa 1550sAD.

 

sultan Suleyman's court in procession

The prints are very pleasing  esthetically and show maestry of composition, anatomy and knowledge of proportions etc, they are also very precise in detail and contain a wealth of information about the Ottomans and their empire. 

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Three world preeminent art centers- London's British Museum, NYC Metropolitan Museum and Amsterdam's Rijks Museum possess at least three different sets of these prints. 

Enjoy

Valete

Della Cavalleria Das ist - 1624AD

 Salvete Omnes,

Bavarian Digital Library 1624 copy

we will just link the grand equestrian work of German Renaissance - Della Cavalleria Das ist from 1624 - by Georg Engelhard 
Löhneysen. There exists a bit smaller, per number of pages, manuscript with hand-drawn plates from 1578, held by the Austrian National Library. 

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Ecuyer and landowner  by the end of the 1500, Goerog Engelhard served  various dukes of the Welf family, from Saxony to  Brunswick.
Eventually  he bought a printing press , installed it in his estates and started producing his own works through 1625, when they got destroyed during the 30 Years War.
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and from  his very book come these two plates with  six richly presented saddled war horse of Hungarian, Ottoman Turkish and Polish types.

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more Lohneysen to come

Valete