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Frieze with a Falconing Couple, Soldiers, and Women
153116th century
Christoph Bockstorffer , aka Master C.B., Christoffel Bocksdorfer, German
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- friezes (ornamental bands) - Use for extended horizontal bands decorating architecture, furniture, or other objects and containing figures, scenes, or ornamental motifs. For the specific parts of classical entablatures, use "friezes (entablature components)." [April 1993 related term added.]
- soldiers - Use generally for those belonging to an army, whether that of a sovereign state, a faction or division within a sovereign state, or of an individual leader. Use also specifically for military personnel of enlisted rank, as distinguished from commissioned officers. For those trained for or engaged in the physical combat of warfare and sanctioned in that function by the society or group for which they fight, irrespective of actual membership in an army, use "warriors." [November 1997 scope note changed; related term added. November 1996 related term deleted, was "knights (landholders)". February 1993 scope note changed; descriptor moved. December 1992 related terms added; alternate term added. November 1990 descriptor added.]
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Christoph Bockstorffer , aka Master C.B., Christoffel Bocksdorfer, German . Frieze with a Falconing Couple, Soldiers, and Women, 1531. Etching printed from iron plate on laid paper. : mm (in.). DAC accession number 2019.3.1. Friends of the Davison Art Center funds, 2019. Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (photo: J. Giammatteo) .