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6. Hans Sebald Beham (1500-1550) Triumph of the Noble, Victorious Women |
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Triumph of the Noble, Victorious Women
Engraving, 1549, 22 x 135 mm., Bartsch 143, Pauli 244 i/iii, ex collection Bernhard Keller (Lugt 384). Superb impression on laid paper with partial thread margins or trimmed on the plate mark but with a white border outside the subject all around. Both Sebald and Barthel had engraved essentially the same image before this, but without text and identified only as a generic triumphal procession, perhaps of Bacchus. But something different is going on here. The carried urns are now flaming rather than vegetal – a sexual connotation -- and what is being celebrated is the power of women over men. Images dealing with that subject are frequent in the sixteenth century (Aristotle and Phyllis, Samson and Delilah, Virgil and the Courtesan, etc.) but perhaps never before as a triumphal procession, a satiric riff on a previously solemn subject.
