Minneapolis Institute of Art
The Great Standard Bearer
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- Date
- 1587
- Medium
- Engraving
- Department
- European Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Object ID
- 119658
What the image shows
A man in elaborate Renaissance attire holds a large flag, standing on a hillside with a distant landscape.
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From the Minneapolis Institute of Art record
Today’s army uses digital camouflage to make soldiers difficult to detect. Some consider this an advance on the sixteenth-century tactic of outfitting particularly brave men in embroidered and slit silk jackets with stuffed waists and puffy sleeves, pantaloons tied with bows, starched ruffs, and drop earrings, while elevating big billowing banners. It may not look it, but as this soldier tells us, this was a serious job: “I, the standard-bearer, ensure steadfastness of mind and heart: as long as I stand, the line holds, if I flee, it flees also.” To pay for his finery and to compensate him for being a prime target, the standard-bearer received three times the pay of the ordinary soldier. Netherlands, Europe
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- Credit line
- Gift of Chichi Steiner and Tom Rassieur in honor of Kristin Lenaburg
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