Description du jubilé de sept cens ans de S. Macaire, patron particulier contre la peste, qui sera céléré dans la ville de Grand ... a commencer le 30. de mai jusqu'au 15. juin 1767, avec le détail ultérieur des cérémonies, solemnités, cavalcade, ornemens & feux d'artifice, &c. &c. qui auront lieu à cette occasion

Meyer, Jean Thomas, Heylbrouck, Norbert, approximately 1735-1785, engraver, Wauters, P. (Engraver), engraver, Wouters, J. L. (Jan Lieven), active 1767, engraver, Reysschoot, Emanuel Petrus Franciscus van, 1713-1772, illustrator, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) · 1767 · Gand : [s.n.], [1767] · 31 pictures

A 1767 festival description published in Ghent, Belgium, by Jean Thomas Meyer, recording the jubilee of Saint Macaire with engraved plates of its cavalcade. The engravings show elaborate allegorical floats built as rocky mounds, temples and mythic tableaux, each pulled by teams of horses and accompanied by riders in costume. A designer could draw on their dense baroque ornament, theatrical staging and the rhythm of processional carts moving across a flat horizon line.

Belgium · Festivals · Ghent · Macaire · Of ghent, saint

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