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Large Triumphal Carriage
The Large Triumphal Carriage or Great Triumphal Car (in German, "Triumphwagen") is a large 16th-century woodcut print by Albrecht Dürer, commissioned by the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I. The work was originally intended to be the central part of a long print of a "Triumphal Procession" or "Triumph of Maximilian", depicting Maximilian and his court entourage in a procession. This section shows the emperor in his triumphal car, and was part of a tradition depicting imaginary "triumphs" or real
a "Triumphal Procession" (1516–18, 137 woodcut panels, long) which is led by a "Large Triumphal Carriage" (1522, 8 woodcut panels, ); only the "Arch" was completed in Maximilian's lifetime and distributed as propaganda, as he intended. Together, this series has been described by art historian Hyatt Mayor as "Maximilian's program of paper grandeur". They stand alongside two published biographical allegories in verse, the ' and ', heavily illustrated with woodcuts.
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