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QVARTVS: Feasting Chariot

PROCESSION l2r · p.167
QVARTVS: Feasting Chariot
From the 1499 Aldine first edition (University of Seville copy, via Internet Archive)

Chariot with reclining figures feasting among garlands, fruit, and flowing drapery.

In the Narrative

The fourth triumph: a feast on wheels. The combination of food, drink, and movement represents the sensory abundance of the world Eros governs.

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