3.1.6. KINGS CHANGE AS ECONOMIES GROW

THEY ARE SHOWN FIGHTING ON HORSEBACK AND CONSUME STILL MORE 

FROM THE EARLY 16th CENTURY

Transitional images:

• In 15th century Italy, where economies are more advanced that in the north, the king fights on a superb white horse. But the hat remains a brake. 

The Battle of San Romano by Paolo Uccello, toward 1430 / zoom

• In early 16th-century Flanders, this king is not dressed for combat. Vassals surround him so he cannot fight, as in parts of the African savannah. Yet he is on horseback. 

Tapestry (detail), Musée de la Renaissance

King David, Brussels, toward 1520

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In France, where the economy develops faster, François I fights vigorously on horseback and is captured later while trying an exploit. 

  The Battle of Marignan, 1515 (undated work) / zoom

 

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  The Battle of Pavia, 1525 (detail of tapestry finished in  1531)  / zoom

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The victor (Charles V, king of Spain) receives a series of tapestries that describe the battle. 

 

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 "During the Renaissance its cost made tapestry the art of kings..." 

 

Erasing gain so that it not be invested

was more than ever the job of kings. 

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3.1.7. 

Commercial peoples' emphasized subordination