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Source Description
This drawing of a young soldier setting fire to a cart of war trophies may represent a rarely depicted legend about the Macedonian king Alexander the Great (356–323 BC), who built one of the largest empires of the ancient world by the time he was 30 years old. Because the heavy spoils of war were slowing down his troops, Alexander set fire to his own cart of goods to encourage his soldiers to do the same. Renaissance princes revered him as a brilliant military strategist. Emperor Maximilian I (reigned 1486–1519), pictured in the equestrian portrait and in the great triumphal car nearby, considered Alexander a distant ancestor.
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Document identity
localId
141490
label
Man in Armor beside a Chariot
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obj
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drawing
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1
Source metadata
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141490
contentType
drawing
title
Man in Armor beside a Chariot
description
This drawing of a young soldier setting fire to a cart of war trophies may represent a rarely depicted legend about the Macedonian king Alexander the Great (356–323 BC), who built one of the largest empires of the ancient world by the time he was 30 years old. Because the heavy spoils of war were slowing down his troops, Alexander set fire to his own cart of goods to encourage his soldiers to do the same. Renaissance princes revered him as a brilliant military strategist. Emperor Maximilian I (reigned 1486–1519), pictured in the equestrian portrait and in the great triumphal car nearby, considered Alexander a distant ancestor.
date
c. 1550
citation
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q80041120
creators
4634
genreSpecific
Drawing
imageCount
1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 35.7 x 27.1 cm (14 1/16 x 10 11/16 in.); Secondary Support: 35.7 x 27.4 cm (14 1/16 x 10 13/16 in.); Tertiary Support: 35.8 x 27.4 cm (14 1/8 x 10 13/16 in.)
cul
Italy, 16th century
accession
1964.99
Source extras
tec
pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over black chalk, heightened with white
tombstone
Man in Armor beside a Chariot, c. 1550. Assistant of Francesco Salviati (Italian, 1510–1563). Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over black chalk, heightened with white; sheet: 35.7 x 27.1 cm (14 1/16 x 10 11/16 in.); secondary support: 35.7 x 27.4 cm (14 1/16 x 10 13/16 in.); tertiary support: 35.8 x 27.4 cm (14 1/8 x 10 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1964.99
supportMaterials
description
brown-green laid(?) paper, laid down on brown laid(?) paper, laid down on a tertiary support of board
collection
DR - Italian
inscriptions
inscription
lower right, in graphite: [illegible] / Elève de Raphael [in parentheses] ; lower right, in graphite(?): [illegible] ; VERSO OF TERTIARY SUPPORT, upper left, in blue crayon: WCA 2302 ; center, in graphite: Maturino / Elève de Raphael [underlined, in parentheses) ; center right, in graphite: Ecole de Rome [in parentheses]
citations
citation
Olszewski, Edward J., and Jane Glaubinger. <em>The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles</em>. Cleveland: Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with the Indiana University Press, 1981.
page_number
no. 28, illus.
citation
"Year in Review for 1964." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 51, no. 10 (1964): 236-66.
page_number
p. 266 no. 139, illus. p. 242
url
www.jstor.org/stable/25152021
creditline
Dudley P. Allen Fund
updatedAt
2026-05-29 07:16:20.500000
sourceId
141490
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Drawings
coll
DR - Italian
med
pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over black chalk, heightened with white
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male
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1
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0
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photo
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