This item is a replicated sculpted of an exact pulling of the tomb carving. This is a very large and unique piece pulled off the wall of an estate of a professor of history. He had this for many decades back to the 50s but the family is unaware of who he received it from.
in great condition with a solid frame. There are some holes near the boarder which appear to have been from an old frame or direct mounting. The back of the piece has what looks like soldering marks near screws and boarder. I believe this was once held out of frame strung up by cable or rope and the soldering marks are from a previously attached hanging hook/ring. A small section of the back was cleaned to see the base metal. It was black like the front but did clean up. The pitting throughout the piece is indicative of a bronze work and the relief does not show sings of a hammering tool which you would find with a copper maker.
The Battle of Marignano was the last major engagement of the War of the League of Cambrai and took place on 13–14 September 1515, near the town now called Melegnano, 16 km southeast of Milan. It pitted the French army, composed of the best heavy cavalry and artillery in Europe, led by Francis I, newly crowned King of France, against the Old Swiss Confederacy, whose mercenaries until that point were regarded as the best medieval infantry force in Europe. With the French were German landsknechts, bitter rivals of the Swiss for fame and renown in war, and their late arriving Venetian allies.
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