posted on 2017-06-30, 00:00authored byG. Massiot & cie
13. Duke Albrecht II the Wise of Austria; 14. King Rudolf I; 15. King Philip the Fair of Castile; 16. Clovis the King of the Franks\u000a\u000aThe Hofkirche owes its fame to the fact that it houses the monument to Maximilian I, although it was in fact the wish of the Emperor that the tomb be erected in the Schlosskirche at Wiener Neustadt, where he is actually buried; this was technically impossible. Emperor Ferdinand I decided to locate the monument to his grandfather in the Hofkirche, where it stands in the nave. A massive marble sarcophagus rests in the centre, flanked by 28 bronze statues, ranged between the nave columns, representing the Emperor's ancestors and contemporaries, to a scheme devised by Maximilian himself in 1502. The figures (1509-1550) were cast in various workshops, mostly in Innsbruck, and are represented as mourners carrying funeral torches. Florian Abel was responsible for designing the sepulchral monument; his brothers Bernhard and Arnold Abel executed sculptural work on the monument. Other sculptors include Peter Vischer the Elder, Hans Leinberger, Leonhart Magt, and Veit Stoss.
History
Alt Title
Sepulchral Monument of Maximilian I
Date Created
1910-01-01
Date Modified
2017-06-30
Spatial Coverage
Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria|Innsbruck
Temporal Coverage
before or circa 1910
Cultural Context
Mannerist (Renaissance-Baroque style)
Rights Statement
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