Belegering van Wenen door de Ottomanen
Summary
Gezicht in vogelvlucht op het slagveld rondom Wenen. Op de voorgrond het Ottomaanse leger onder leiding van sultan Süleyman I, dat in september 1532 voor de tweede keer Wenen belegerde. Aan de andere kant van de Donau is het Habsburgse leger onder leiding van keizer Karel V gepositioneerd. Op het middenplan wordt de strijd om Wenen voltrokken. Verscheidene omliggende geografische locaties zijn op de prent afgebeeld. Midden onder een cartouche met een twaalfregelige tekst in het Latijn.
A cartouche or cartouch is an oval design with a slightly convex surface, typically edged with ornamental scrollwork. It is used to hold a painted or low relief design. In Early Modern design, since the early 16th century, the cartouche is a scrolling frame device, derived originally from Italian cartoccia. Such cartouches are characteristically stretched, pierced and scrolling (illustration, left). Another cartouche figures prominently in the title page of Giorgio Vasari's Lives, framing a minor vignette with a device of pierced and scrolling papery cartoccia.
Printmaking in woodcut and engraving came to Northern Italy within a few decades of their invention north of the Alps. Engraving probably came first to Florence in the 1440s, the goldsmith Maso Finiguerra (1426–64) used the technique. Italian engraving caught the very early Renaissance, 1460–1490. Print copying was a widely accepted practice, as well as copying of paintings viewed as images in their own right.