The frieze of Marignano offers a chronological rollout of the 1515 campaign. It has never been commented on scene by scene. Some episodes, difficult to identify, are not presented here. In 1548, Henry II commissioned a tomb from architect Philibert Delorme...
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The frieze of Marignano offers a chronological rollout of the 1515 campaign. It has never been commented on scene by scene. Some episodes, difficult to identify, are not presented here. In 1548, Henry II commissioned a tomb from architect Philibert Delorme in memory of his parents, Francis I and Claude of France. A triumphal arch shows the effigies of the deceased sovereigns, inside the monument, and praying on the upper platform. On the base a bas-relief frieze, sculpted by Pierre Bontemps, shows the victory of Francis I over the Swiss at Marignano in September 1515. The Italian dream Cousin and son-in-law of Louis XII, Francis of Angoulême ascended the throne in January 1515. For decades, the French dreamed of beautiful Italy and the rich Duchy of Milan, conquered and then lost by Louis XII in 1513. In June 1515, Francis I declared war for, as a great-grand-son of a Milanese princess, Valentina Visconti, he claimed the Italian duchy under the rights that his wife Claude, herself a de
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