page_title: Court Church
section_title: Cenotaph
hierarchical_section_title: Court Church / Cenotaph
caption_attribution_description: Hofkirche, Innsbruck, Austria - Maximilian I cenotaph.
context_page_description: The Hofkirche is a Gothic church located in the Altstadt section of Innsbruck, Austria. The church was built in 1553 by Emperor Ferdinand I as a memorial to his grandfather Emperor Maximilian I, whose cenotaph within boasts a remarkable collection of German Renaissance sculpture. The church also contains the tomb of Andreas Hofer, Tyrol's national hero.
  Although Maximilian's will had directed that he be buried in the castle chapel in Wiener Neustadt, it proved impractical to construct there the large memorial whose plans he had supervised in detail, and Ferdinand I as executor planned construction of a new church and monastery in Innsbruck for a suitable memorial. In the end, however, Maximilian's simple tomb remained in Wiener Neustadt and the Hofkirche serves as a cenotaph.
context_section_description: Emperor Maximilian's ornate black marble cenotaph occupies the center of the nave. Florian Abel, of the Prague imperial court, supplied a full-sized draft of the high tomb in the florid style of court Mannerism. Its construction took more than 80 years. The sarcophagus itself was completed in 1572, and the final embellishments—the kneeling emperor, the four virtues, and the iron grille—were added in 1584.
  Trento mason Hieronymus Longi directed construction of the tomb proper. The base of the tomb consists of Hagau marble, a Jurassic limestone found in the North Tyrol and used as a building stone throughout western Austria. The bronze relief frieze of trophies includes vases, suits of armor, weapons, shields, musical instruments, etc., and above that two rows of white marble reliefs. The 24 reliefs were created by the artist Alexander Colin, based on woodcuts from The Triumphal Arch (Ehrenpforte) by Albrecht Dürer, with four stone bas-reliefs each on the tomb's ends, and eight on its longer sides. They depict events from Maximilian's life as follows: 
  Marriage of Maximilian to Mary of Burgundy, 1477
  Victory over the French at the First Battle of Guinegate, 1478
  Recapture of Arras fortress, 1492
  Maximilian's coronation as King of the Romans in Aachen, 1486
  Victory of Archduke Sigmund of Tyrol over the Venetians at Calliano, 1487
  Maximilian's liberation of Vienna from Hungarian Rule, 1490
  Capture of Stuhlweissenburg, 1490
  Return of Maximilian's daughter Margarethe by the French King, 1493
  Retreat of the Turks from Croatia, 1493
  Alliance of the Holy League against France, 1494
  Maximilian's Wedding with Bianca Maria Sforza, 1494
  Marriage of Philip the Fair to Joanna of Castile, 1496
  Victory of Maximilian over the Bohemians near Regensburg, 1504
  Capture of Kufstein Fortress, 1504
  Subjugation of the Duke of Guelders, 1505
  Alliance of Cambrai against Venice, 1508
  Victory over Venice, 1509
  Return of Duke Maximilian Sforza to Milan, 1512
  Victory over the French at the Second Battle of Guinegate, 1513
  Maximilian and King Henry VIII of England meet at Thérouanne, 1513
  Defeat of the Venetians near Vicenza, 1513
  Capture of the Venetian Fortress of Murano, 1514
  Betrothal of Maximilian's grandson Ferdinand to Anne of Bohemia and Hungary, 1515
  Defense of Verona, 1516
  The tomb is enclosed within a fine wrought iron grille created by Jörg Schmidhammer of the Prague court, based on a drawing by the Innsbruck painter Paul Trabel, and capped with statues of the four virtues and kneeling emperor cast in Mühlau from models by Alexander Colin.
caption: Maximilian's cenotaph
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