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165:, whose feathered wings bear the names of Maximilian's military campaigns: "Gallis" (France), "Ungaris" (Hungary), "Bohemis" (Bohemia), "Elvetiis" (Switzerland), "Germanis" (Germany) and "Venetis" (Venice). The other six plates each show a pair of horses with luxurious harnesses, pulling the carriage along. Many parts of the print are labelled to explain the complex iconography: the wheels are marked "Magnificentia" (magnificence), "Dignitas" (dignity), "Gloria" (glory) and "Honor" (honour); one rein is marked "Nobilitas" (nobility) and the other "Potentia" (power). The driver of the carriage is "Ratio" (reason). Each horse is attended by a female figure carrying a wreath: from rear to front, "Providentia" (providence) and "Moderatio" (moderation), "Alacritas" (quickness) and "Opportunitas" (opportunity), "Velocitas" (speed) and "Firmitudo" (firmness), "Acrimonia" (sharpness/keen-ness/vigor) and "Virilitas" (virility), "Audacia" (audacity) and "Magnanimitas" (magananiminty), and "Experientia" (experience) and "Solertia" (skill). The carriage is also attended by four female figures: "Gravitas" (gravity), "Perserverantia" (perseverance), "Fidentia" (fidelity) and "Securitas" (security). Lettering above explains the iconography, and the front pair of horses are accompanied by a text recording the commission from Maximilian to Pirckheimer dated Innsbruck, 1518. 298: 289: 280: 271: 262: 253: 244: 235: 33: 224: 759: 206:
The original blocks were used to print seven editions of the print. The first edition was published in Nuremberg by Dürer himself, with explanatory text by Pirckheimer in German in 1522, with a second edition in Latin in 1523. A third and fourth edition in German and Latin was published in around
157:. It measures approximately 0.46 metres (1.5 ft) high 2.4 metres (8 ft) long. Two blocks depict a large carriage or chariot in which Maximilian sits alone, holding a sceptre and a palm and wearing the imperial robes and the crown of the Holy Roman Empire and surrounded by the four 190:
After Maximilian's death in 1519, and the ending of the annual pension of 100 florins paid to Dürer under Maximilian, Dürer published the prints of the completed carriage as a separate work in 1522, with text in German, dedicated to Maximilian and
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is also held by the Albertina. In the earlier works, Maximilian is accompanied in the carriage by members of his family, but they were omitted in the final print.
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in Vienna, and show a much smaller carriage. A watercolour of a second more elaborate scheme drawn in 1518 by Dürer with suggestions by
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from about 1512, were first published in 1526 on the orders of Archduke Ferdinand.
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1559, and a fifth edition was published in Venice in 1589 by the German printer
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The work is one of three huge prints created for Maximilian, the other being a
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was completed before Maximilian's death in 1519, and distributed as Imperial
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Dürer's allegorical figures are based on prints of dancing nymphs by
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The work was originally intended to be the central part of the
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Index

Great Triumphal Car

woodcut
print
Albrecht Dürer
Holy Roman Emperor
Maximilian I
Triumphal Procession
triumphal car
triumphs
royal entries
Triumphal Arch
Albrecht Dürer
Triumphal Procession
triumphal arches
triumphs
Ancient Rome
propaganda
printed
wood blocks
Willibald Pirckheimer
cardinal virtues
Victory
Andrea Mantegna
Albertina
Willibald Pirckheimer
Charles V
Hans Burgkmair
Jacubus Chinig
British Museum

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