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Tomb and Museum of Emperor Maximilian I In the middle of the Innsbruck's Hofkirche's nave will be found the Tomb of the Emperor Maximilian I (d. 1519, buried in Wiener Neustadt), the finest work of German Renaissance sculpture, conceived as a glorification of the Holy Roman Empire. The central feature of the monument is the massive black marble sarcophagus with a bronze figure of the Emperor (by Alexander Colin, 1584). The wrought-iron screen was the work of the Prague craftsman G. Schmiedhammer (1573). On the sides of the sarcophagus are 24 marble reliefs depicting events in the Emperor's life (1562-66: mainly by A. Colin).Around the sarcophagus stand 28 over-lifesize bronze statues (1508-50) of the Emperor's ancestors and contemporaries. The finest of these are of Count Albrecht IV of Habsburg (modeled by Hans Leinberger after a design by Dürer) and King Theodoric of the Ostrogoths and King Arthur of England (regarded as the finest statue of a knight in Renaissance art), both the latter being designed by Dürer and cast by Peter Vischer of Nürnberg in 1513. Of the female figures the artistically most valuable, including one of Elisabeth of Austria, are attributed to Veit Stoss and Hans Leinberger. In the north gallery of the church can be seen other pieces of sculpture from the tomb - 23 bronze statues of saints from the Habsburg family (1508-20) and 20 bronze busts of Roman emperors (c. 1530).The 28 larger than life-size bronze statues are unique examples of the fashions of their day. Every detail has been carefully carried also has a Maximilianeum, which is a museum of collectibles from the life of Emperor Maximilian. Many of his original documents and belongings are kept in the museum.
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