Emperor Charles V in procession to his coronation by Pope Clement VII at Bologna

[Druzhina]

George Gush uses Nicolaas Hogenberg's 'Emperor Charles V in procession to his coronation by Pope Clement VII at Bologna', 1530 as the source for the Papal Guard. The Hogenberg plate of the guards is the only one of the 38 that does not have a latin inscription. Gush calls them Germans but there is nothing to indicate this. There are Bolognese infantry in classical costume in the early part of the procession and landsknechts under Antonio de Leyva near the end, so the guards in the middle around Pope Clement VII and Emperor Charles V are probably Papal (they wear Sajones more typical of Italian costume).

Other plates include:
Bolognese banners
Papal banners
Mercenary Knights
Artillery

MIRROR SITE
'Emperor Charles V in procession to his coronation by Pope Clement VII at Bologna', 1530 by Nicolaas Hogenberg

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[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Good sites, some pages took a while to open.

[Techno]

Great pics....Really like the artist's style on those.
Cheers - Phil

[Druzhina]

Good sites, some pages took a while to open.

As the scenes overlap the plates I have displayed 2 plates per page so that these scenes can be understood, but, if using 'previous' or 'next' only 1 extra image needs to load.

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[OldenBUA]

Nicolaas Hogenberg's 'Emperor Charles V in procession to his coronation by Pope Clement VII at Bologna', 1530

On the page it says: "Optocht van Karel V met de paus te Bologna na zijn kroning tot keizer, 1530, Nicolaas Hogenberg" (note the extra 't', as well).

This means it's the procession of Charles V and the Pope after the coronation.

Also interestingly, plate 26 (Guards) has 'Keizerlijke garde' i.e. Imperial Guards as a subtitle. No idea why or where this comes from (Rijksmuseum, probably?) but maybe you'd like to know.

[Druzhina]

On the page it says: "Optocht van Karel V met de paus te Bologna na zijn kroning tot keizer, 1530, Nicolaas Hogenberg" (note the extra 't', as well).

This means it's the procession of Charles V and the Pope after the coronation.

I blindly followed the British Museum on this. I've had a look at the dedication & title plates but they are no help,  then I found some Google book references which also have it as the procession after the coronation.  I will e-mail the British Museum again (they advised me that plate 1 of their set will be displayed correctly after the next database update) to have them investigate.

Also interestingly, plate 26 (Guards) has 'Keizerlijke garde' i.e. Imperial Guards as a subtitle. No idea why or where this comes from (Rijksmuseum, probably?) but maybe you'd like to know.

I translated the captions from the Dutch at the Rijksmuseum site, as Google Translate is not very good at Latin. It needs U instead of V & doesn't have a very large vocabulary, there are a lot of abbreviations used (lines above letters mostly indicate these), there are some typos and the spaces between words are unclear.  I couldn't fix most of these until I found some references in Italian books.  I added some extra info to the captions from the Latin but for plate 26 I deleted 'Imperial' as there was nothing to back this up.

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[Druzhina]

The British Museum have replied that the database records will be amended to 'after' the coronation.

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[OldenBUA]

The British Museum have replied that the database records will be amended to 'after' the coronation.