TOMB OF MAXIMILIAN 
Master of those who know.” Doubtless, indeed, 
both his Arthur and his St. Peter of the Sebaldus- 
grab owe not a little to the masterpiece of Dona- 
tello. 
But the beauty of the figure and pose of King 
Arthur is not all. It need not blind us to the 
exquisite ornamentation of the armour, which, un- 
like that of Theodoric, is rich with the richness of 
the North Italian Renaissance. The dragons 
thereon are full of life, and the chain of the 
Order of the Golden Fleece, and all the other 
minute details of the decoration, are as notable 
for the fecundity of invention as for the skill in 
execution which they display. 
~ These two heroic figures were completed by 
the Vischer family as early as the year 1513, but 
they did not reach the place for which they had 
been destined till some ten years later, for the 
Emperor kept them at Augsburg. And even 
after they had arrived at Innsbruck and been set 
in position there, they were not left in peace. A 
great danger threatened Theodoric in 1548, for it 
did not square with Charles V.’s conception of 
the order of the Universe that the king of the 
Goths should be found among the ancestors of 
the Hapsburgs. He therefore gave orders that 
his statue should either be recast or at least be 
renamed. Fortunately neither of these things got 
itself done. 
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