Nuremberg, shortly before or after 1500 The object, last commented on in 2014 by Matthias Weniger (Franconian Gallery, Rosenberg Fortress, Kronach), is unknown in its original function. Its possible use as a chandelier is just as questionable as its dating to the mid-16th century. Nor is it a case of "various stylistic forms" being mixed together. While the castle depiction may be a product of imagination, there is nothing about this architecture that is not Late Gothic. The proliferation of trefoil arch friezes corresponds to the practice of Castilian castles and city palaces from 1480 onward. Comparisons of this motif in the model can be directly drawn with the Royal Castle of Manzanares and the Infantado Palace in Guadalajara—the latter of which the Nuremberg scholar Hieronymus Münzer wrote a general description of on January 26, 1495, after his visit. On the other hand, shortly before his death in 1490, King Matthias Corvinus commissioned the construction of Hunedoara Castle (now in Romania), featuring a series of semicircular bay windows directly related to those in Guadalajara, demonstrating the widespread popularity of this Spanish architectural style in Eastern Europe. Even if the coat of arms of the Harsdörfer and Reichel families likely dates from before 1531, it could have been added to the older structure later. The size of the castle windows corresponds to the typological transition from castle to palace and is therefore not unrealistic.

Dr. Pablo de la Riestra, August 2020

Nuremberg, shortly before or after 1500 The object, last commented on in 2014 by Matthias Weniger (Franconian Gallery, Rosenberg Fortress, Kronach), is unknown in its original function. Its possible use as a chandelier is just as questionable as its dating to the mid-16th century. Nor is it a case of "various stylistic forms" being mixed together. While the castle depiction may be a product of imagination, there is nothing about this architecture that is not Late Gothic. The proliferation of trefoil arch friezes corresponds to the practice of Castilian castles and city palaces from 1480 onward. Comparisons of this motif in the model can be directly drawn with the Royal Castle of Manzanares and the Infantado Palace in Guadalajara—the latter of which the Nuremberg scholar Hieronymus Münzer wrote a general description of on January 26, 1495, after his visit. On the other hand, shortly before his death in 1490, King Matthias Corvinus commissioned the construction of Hunedoara Castle (now in Romania), featuring a series of semicircular bay windows directly related to those in Guadalajara, demonstrating the widespread popularity of this Spanish architectural style in Eastern Europe. Even if the coat of arms of the Harsdörfer and Reichel families likely dates from before 1531, it could have been added to the older structure later. The size of the castle windows corresponds to the typological transition from castle to palace and is therefore not unrealistic.

Dr. Pablo de la Riestra, August 2020

Nuremberg, shortly before or after 1500 The object, last commented on in 2014 by Matthias Weniger (Franconian Gallery, Rosenberg Fortress, Kronach), is unknown in its original function. Its possible use as a chandelier is just as questionable as its dating to the mid-16th century. Nor is it a case of "various stylistic forms" being mixed together. While the castle depiction may be a product of imagination, there is nothing about this architecture that is not Late Gothic. The proliferation of trefoil arch friezes corresponds to the practice of Castilian castles and city palaces from 1480 onward. Comparisons of this motif in the model can be directly drawn with the Royal Castle of Manzanares and the Infantado Palace in Guadalajara—the latter of which the Nuremberg scholar Hieronymus Münzer wrote a general description of on January 26, 1495, after his visit. On the other hand, shortly before his death in 1490, King Matthias Corvinus commissioned the construction of Hunedoara Castle (now in Romania), featuring a series of semicircular bay windows directly related to those in Guadalajara, demonstrating the widespread popularity of this Spanish architectural style in Eastern Europe. Even if the coat of arms of the Harsdörfer and Reichel families likely dates from before 1531, it could have been added to the older structure later. The size of the castle windows corresponds to the typological transition from castle to palace and is therefore not unrealistic.

Dr. Pablo de la Riestra, August 2020

Nuremberg, shortly before or after 1500 The object, last commented on in 2014 by Matthias Weniger (Franconian Gallery, Rosenberg Fortress, Kronach), is unknown in its original function. Its possible use as a chandelier is just as questionable as its dating to the mid-16th century. Nor is it a case of "various stylistic forms" being mixed together. While the castle depiction may be a product of imagination, there is nothing about this architecture that is not Late Gothic. The proliferation of trefoil arch friezes corresponds to the practice of Castilian castles and city palaces from 1480 onward. Comparisons of this motif in the model can be directly drawn with the Royal Castle of Manzanares and the Infantado Palace in Guadalajara—the latter of which the Nuremberg scholar Hieronymus Münzer wrote a general description of on January 26, 1495, after his visit. On the other hand, shortly before his death in 1490, King Matthias Corvinus commissioned the construction of Hunedoara Castle (now in Romania), featuring a series of semicircular bay windows directly related to those in Guadalajara, demonstrating the widespread popularity of this Spanish architectural style in Eastern Europe. Even if the coat of arms of the Harsdörfer and Reichel families likely dates from before 1531, it could have been added to the older structure later. The size of the castle windows corresponds to the typological transition from castle to palace and is therefore not unrealistic.

Dr. Pablo de la Riestra, August 2020

Nuremberg, shortly before or after 1500 The object, last commented on in 2014 by Matthias Weniger (Franconian Gallery, Rosenberg Fortress, Kronach), is unknown in its original function. Its possible use as a chandelier is just as questionable as its dating to the mid-16th century. Nor is it a case of "various stylistic forms" being mixed together. While the castle depiction may be a product of imagination, there is nothing about this architecture that is not Late Gothic. The proliferation of trefoil arch friezes corresponds to the practice of Castilian castles and city palaces from 1480 onward. Comparisons of this motif in the model can be directly drawn with the Royal Castle of Manzanares and the Infantado Palace in Guadalajara—the latter of which the Nuremberg scholar Hieronymus Münzer wrote a general description of on January 26, 1495, after his visit. On the other hand, shortly before his death in 1490, King Matthias Corvinus commissioned the construction of Hunedoara Castle (now in Romania), featuring a series of semicircular bay windows directly related to those in Guadalajara, demonstrating the widespread popularity of this Spanish architectural style in Eastern Europe. Even if the coat of arms of the Harsdörfer and Reichel families likely dates from before 1531, it could have been added to the older structure later. The size of the castle windows corresponds to the typological transition from castle to palace and is therefore not unrealistic.

Dr. Pablo de la Riestra, August 2020

Nuremberg, shortly before or after 1500 The object, last commented on in 2014 by Matthias Weniger (Franconian Gallery, Rosenberg Fortress, Kronach), is unknown in its original function. Its possible use as a chandelier is just as questionable as its dating to the mid-16th century. Nor is it a case of "various stylistic forms" being mixed together. While the castle depiction may be a product of imagination, there is nothing about this architecture that is not Late Gothic. The proliferation of trefoil arch friezes corresponds to the practice of Castilian castles and city palaces from 1480 onward. Comparisons of this motif in the model can be directly drawn with the Royal Castle of Manzanares and the Infantado Palace in Guadalajara—the latter of which the Nuremberg scholar Hieronymus Münzer wrote a general description of on January 26, 1495, after his visit. On the other hand, shortly before his death in 1490, King Matthias Corvinus commissioned the construction of Hunedoara Castle (now in Romania), featuring a series of semicircular bay windows directly related to those in Guadalajara, demonstrating the widespread popularity of this Spanish architectural style in Eastern Europe. Even if the coat of arms of the Harsdörfer and Reichel families likely dates from before 1531, it could have been added to the older structure later. The size of the castle windows corresponds to the typological transition from castle to palace and is therefore not unrealistic.

Dr. Pablo de la Riestra, August 2020

Nuremberg, shortly before or after 1500 The object, last commented on in 2014 by Matthias Weniger (Franconian Gallery, Rosenberg Fortress, Kronach), is unknown in its original function. Its possible use as a chandelier is just as questionable as its dating to the mid-16th century. Nor is it a case of "various stylistic forms" being mixed together. While the castle depiction may be a product of imagination, there is nothing about this architecture that is not Late Gothic. The proliferation of trefoil arch friezes corresponds to the practice of Castilian castles and city palaces from 1480 onward. Comparisons of this motif in the model can be directly drawn with the Royal Castle of Manzanares and the Infantado Palace in Guadalajara—the latter of which the Nuremberg scholar Hieronymus Münzer wrote a general description of on January 26, 1495, after his visit. On the other hand, shortly before his death in 1490, King Matthias Corvinus commissioned the construction of Hunedoara Castle (now in Romania), featuring a series of semicircular bay windows directly related to those in Guadalajara, demonstrating the widespread popularity of this Spanish architectural style in Eastern Europe. Even if the coat of arms of the Harsdörfer and Reichel families likely dates from before 1531, it could have been added to the older structure later. The size of the castle windows corresponds to the typological transition from castle to palace and is therefore not unrealistic.

Dr. Pablo de la Riestra, August 2020

Nuremberg, shortly before or after 1500 The object, last commented on in 2014 by Matthias Weniger (Franconian Gallery, Rosenberg Fortress, Kronach), is unknown in its original function. Its possible use as a chandelier is just as questionable as its dating to the mid-16th century. Nor is it a case of "various stylistic forms" being mixed together. While the castle depiction may be a product of imagination, there is nothing about this architecture that is not Late Gothic. The proliferation of trefoil arch friezes corresponds to the practice of Castilian castles and city palaces from 1480 onward. Comparisons of this motif in the model can be directly drawn with the Royal Castle of Manzanares and the Infantado Palace in Guadalajara—the latter of which the Nuremberg scholar Hieronymus Münzer wrote a general description of on January 26, 1495, after his visit. On the other hand, shortly before his death in 1490, King Matthias Corvinus commissioned the construction of Hunedoara Castle (now in Romania), featuring a series of semicircular bay windows directly related to those in Guadalajara, demonstrating the widespread popularity of this Spanish architectural style in Eastern Europe. Even if the coat of arms of the Harsdörfer and Reichel families likely dates from before 1531, it could have been added to the older structure later. The size of the castle windows corresponds to the typological transition from castle to palace and is therefore not unrealistic.

Dr. Pablo de la Riestra, August 2020

Nuremberg, shortly before or after 1500 The object, last commented on in 2014 by Matthias Weniger (Franconian Gallery, Rosenberg Fortress, Kronach), is unknown in its original function. Its possible use as a chandelier is just as questionable as its dating to the mid-16th century. Nor is it a case of "various stylistic forms" being mixed together. While the castle depiction may be a product of imagination, there is nothing about this architecture that is not Late Gothic. The proliferation of trefoil arch friezes corresponds to the practice of Castilian castles and city palaces from 1480 onward. Comparisons of this motif in the model can be directly drawn with the Royal Castle of Manzanares and the Infantado Palace in Guadalajara—the latter of which the Nuremberg scholar Hieronymus Münzer wrote a general description of on January 26, 1495, after his visit. On the other hand, shortly before his death in 1490, King Matthias Corvinus commissioned the construction of Hunedoara Castle (now in Romania), featuring a series of semicircular bay windows directly related to those in Guadalajara, demonstrating the widespread popularity of this Spanish architectural style in Eastern Europe. Even if the coat of arms of the Harsdörfer and Reichel families likely dates from before 1531, it could have been added to the older structure later. The size of the castle windows corresponds to the typological transition from castle to palace and is therefore not unrealistic.

Dr. Pablo de la Riestra, August 2020

Nuremberg, shortly before or after 1500 The object, last commented on in 2014 by Matthias Weniger (Franconian Gallery, Rosenberg Fortress, Kronach), is unknown in its original function. Its possible use as a chandelier is just as questionable as its dating to the mid-16th century. Nor is it a case of "various stylistic forms" being mixed together. While the castle depiction may be a product of imagination, there is nothing about this architecture that is not Late Gothic. The proliferation of trefoil arch friezes corresponds to the practice of Castilian castles and city palaces from 1480 onward. Comparisons of this motif in the model can be directly drawn with the Royal Castle of Manzanares and the Infantado Palace in Guadalajara—the latter of which the Nuremberg scholar Hieronymus Münzer wrote a general description of on January 26, 1495, after his visit. On the other hand, shortly before his death in 1490, King Matthias Corvinus commissioned the construction of Hunedoara Castle (now in Romania), featuring a series of semicircular bay windows directly related to those in Guadalajara, demonstrating the widespread popularity of this Spanish architectural style in Eastern Europe. Even if the coat of arms of the Harsdörfer and Reichel families likely dates from before 1531, it could have been added to the older structure later. The size of the castle windows corresponds to the typological transition from castle to palace and is therefore not unrealistic.

Dr. Pablo de la Riestra, August 2020