Almost 500 years after the firearm- and pike-wielding Habsburg infantry decimated the heavily armored French cavalry at the 1525 Battle of Pavia in northern Italy, seven gargantuan tapestries ...

After the Battle of Pavia in 1525, Spain controlled the city for two hundred years, then Austria, then Napoleon, then Austria again, until Italy was unified in 1860 and threw out the foreigners. ...

“Shining Armor: The Pavia Tapestries,” on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, ... The Battle of Pavia took place on Feb. 24, 1525, and is considered one of the top 50 battles in history.

Arrayed on the four walls are seven monumental 16 th-century tapestries—each about 28 feet long and 14 feet high—depicting the 1525 battle in northern Italy between the armies of Francis I of ...