DAUCHER, Hans
(b. ca. 1485, Ulm, d. ca. 1538, Stuttgart)

Allegory of Virtues and Vices at the Court of Charles V (detail)

1522
Limestone
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Some of the historical figures that Hans Daucher carved on this relief are identified. Riding a horse, whose rich trappings are emblazoned with the arms of the House of Habsburg, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (1500-1558)leads his retinue across a bridge with laurel-crowned Emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519) at his side (symbolically, since Maximilian was recently deceased). Standing behind the two emperors is Maximilian's court jester Kunz von der Rosen.