Sultan Ottoman Bayezid I dans une cage après la défaite à la bataille d'Ankara de 1402 par son conquérant Turco-Mongol, Timur, Tamerberg ou Tamerlane le Grand. Détail de 1675 frises de fresques processionnelles à travers la façade de Haus zum Grossen Käfig (Maison de la Grande cage) à Vorstadt 43 dans l'Altstadt ou la vieille ville de Schaffhausen, au nord de la Suisse.
4159 x 2773 px | 35,2 x 23,5 cm | 13,9 x 9,2 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
21 juillet 2010
Lieu:
Schaffhausen, Schaffhausen canton, Switzerland
Informations supplémentaires:
Cette image peut avoir des imperfections car il s’agit d’une image historique ou de reportage.
Schaffhausen, northern Switzerland: defeated and dejected Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I (1360-1403) is led into captivity with his hands chained, sitting inside a metal cage on a wooden cart, in this detail of a frescoed frieze originally painted in 1675 across the front of Haus zum Grossen Käfig (House of the Great Cage) at Vorstadt 43 in the Altstadt or old town. The scene, surmounted by a lengthy moralising painted German epigram, depicts the aftermath of the Battle of Ankara in 1402, in which Bayezid’s Ottoman Empire army was vanquished by the Turco-Mongol conqueror variously known as Emir Timur, Timur the Great, Tamerlane, Tamerlaine or Tamerlan the Great or Tamerbeg (1336-1405). Bayezid I never regained his freedom, dying in captivity about eight months after his capture. The original property on this site was owned by the Wiechser family until 1371. The present four-storey Late Renaissance town house was built in 1586, then enlarged in 1675 for aristocrat Rüeger Im Thurn (1632-1701), who commissioned frescoes for the entire facade. The other artworks include illusionist trompe l’oeil architectural decoration framing allegorical scenes, emblems, coats of arms and inscriptions. The frescoes now covering the facade are not the originals, as they were renovated around 1835 and then completely repainted in 1906, retaining all of the original detail, by German artist August Brandes. The artworks were last restored in 2014. The streets of Schaffhausen’s old town are lined with many other fine Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque guild and merchant houses, many with decorative oriel windows and some with sculptured portals and facades covered with Renaissance and later frescoes. D1179.B4075
