The firework display called 'Girandola' at the Castello Sant'Angelo in Rome

The Girandola at the Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla, Claudio Duchetti

Plate K: Election and Coronation of Emperor Maximilian II

Anonymous, German, 17th century, Johann Bringern, Willhelm Hoffmans

Entry of Maximilian II into Nuremberg, June 7, 1570

Jost Amman

The Battle of Mühlberg with the army of Charles V crossing the Elbe River

Enea Vico, After (?) Giovanni Battista Scultori, and/or After Battista Franco, (?) Giovanni Battista Scultori, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany

Fireworks on June 23, 1595, for the entry to Küstrin of the Margrave of Brandenburg and Duchess of Prussia

Possibly by Georg Keller, After (?) Philipp Uffenbach

A Celebration

Johann Ulrich Kraus

Reverse Copy of Le Feu d'Artifice sur l'Arno (Fireworks on the Arno), from "Les Caprices"

Anonymous, After Jacques Callot

Fireworks display by Lorenz Müller as proof of mastership, Nuremberg 1635

Anonymous

Fireworks in Rome Over Castel Sant' Angelo

Adriaen Manglard

Aeneid

Francis Cleyn, Pierre Lombart

The Martyrdom of Saint John the Evangelist, plate five from The Martyrdoms of the Apostles

Jacques Callot

Le Feu d'Artifice sur l'Arno (Fireworks on the Arno), from Les Caprices Series A, The Florence Set

Jacques Callot, Lorenzo de' Medici