Innsbruck - 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.