DÜRER, Albrecht: The Small Triumphal Car or the Burgundian Marriage

✦ DÜRER, Albrecht

🖼 The Small Triumphal Car or the Burgundian Marriage, c. 1518

◈ Woodcut

▣ British Museum

◎ London, United Kingdom

🖼 Order as art print*

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Intricate woodcut reveals a lavish ceremonial procession with ornate carriages, detailed pageantry, and precise Renaissance line work. Dürer celebrates the 1515 Habsburg-Burgundian marriage alliance, demonstrating printmaking's power to broadcast political propaganda and dynastic prestige across Europe.

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E. H. Gombrich

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