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State Carriage of the Fourteenth Century

State Carriage of the Fourteenth Century.jpg A Half-CrownationThumbnailsEntry of Queen Isabel of Bavaria into Paris, a.d. 1389A Half-CrownationThumbnailsEntry of Queen Isabel of Bavaria into Paris, a.d. 1389A Half-CrownationThumbnailsEntry of Queen Isabel of Bavaria into Paris, a.d. 1389A Half-CrownationThumbnailsEntry of Queen Isabel of Bavaria into Paris, a.d. 1389

The woodcut shows the style of carriage associated—grotesquely associated, it seems to our eyes—with the armour and costume of the Middle Ages. It might represent Duke Theseus going in state through the streets of Athens, hung with tapestry and cloth of gold, to the solemn deed of arms of Palamon and Arcite.