Vatican Tournament, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Marriage of Annibale Altemps and Ortensia Borromeo, Rome, March 5, 1565, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Etienne DuPérac, Antonio Lafreri

Vue d'Ensemble de la Fête (View of the Ensemble of the Festival), from "Guerre de Beaute" (Guerra di Bellezza) (War of Beauty)

Jacques Callot

Le Combat des Sections d'Infantrie (The Battle of the Sections of Infantry), from "La Guerre d'Amour" (Guerra d'Amore) (War of Love)

After Jacques Callot

The running of the Quintana and the breaking of the spears (Zu der Quintana rennen und Spiess brechen), from a series depicting the wedding of Wolfgang Wilhelm, Duke of Pfalz-Neuberg, Pfalzgraf, and Magdalena, Duchess of Bavaria, in Munich, 1613 (Plate 10)

Wilhelm Peter Zimmermann

Le Défilé Entrée des Chars de l'Afrique et de l'Aise (The Entrance Parade of the Chariots of Africa and Asia), from La Guerre d'Amour (Guerra d'Amore) (War of Love)

Jacques Callot

Theater at Modena, seen from above and filled with spectators, with a triumphal car at center and horses in formation at lower left and right, from 'La Gara delle Stagioni'

Stefano della Bella

The royal family sitting under a canopy, watching dancers perform the final ballet of 'La Costanza d'Ulisse'

Johann Ulrich Kraus, after Ludovico Ottaviano Burnacini

Joust held in Florence for the arrival of the archduke of Austria, an oval arena with many horsemen and pedestrians, spectators in carriages in the foreground, a row of houses at center in the background, from "Combattimento e balletto a cavallo"

Stefano della Bella

Reprint of Le Combat des Sections d'Infantrie (The Battle of the Sections of Infantry), from La Guerre d'Amour (Guerra d'Amore) (War of Love)

Jacques Callot, Istituto Centrale per la Grafica, Originally printed by Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi

Reprint of Le Défilé Entrée des Chars de l'Afrique et de l'Aise (The Entrance Parade of the Chariots of Africa and Asia), from La Guerre d'Amour (Guerra d'Amore) (War of Love)

Jacques Callot, Istituto Centrale per la Grafica, Originally printed by Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi

First Intermezzo of the Veglia of the“Liberation of Tyrsenus and Arnea"

Jacques Callot

Plate I: Election and Coronation of Emperor Maximilian II

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