After the carriage come representatives from foreign peoples, including exotic people from Calicut with an elephant (129), American Indians (130), soldiers, and then the baggage-train (132-137), shown descending from a hilly alpine landscape.
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It was designed to be pasted to the walls in city halls or the palaces of princes to create a decorative frieze, an expression of the Emperor's power and magnificence: a pictorial form of the contemporaneous royal entry, which like many Renaissance entries looked back to the Roman triumph.
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These monumental projects reflect Maximilian's position as Holy Roman Emperor, and link him to the triumphal arches and triumphs of Ancient Rome.
Procession | The Black Heart Procession | Triumphal Entry | Triumphal entry | 'Sons of Temperance' Procession, Hill End, New South Wales | Royal Barge Procession | procession | Detail from ''The Procession of the Trojan Horse in Troy'' by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo | Dancing procession of Echternach |
In June 1138, with the aid of Robert of Gloucester, Geoffrey obtained the submission of Bayeux and Caen; in October he devastated the neighbourhood of Falaise; and finally, in March 1141, on hearing of his wife's success in England, he again entered Normandy, when he made a triumphal procession through the country.
Florus has the senate turn down his application, but Livy describes his triumphal procession in elaborate detail.