Sujet

Alexander and the Niece of Artaxerxes III, about 1470-1475. Creator: Master of the Jardin de vertueuse consolation.

Légende

Alexander and the Niece of Artaxerxes III, about 1470-1475. Additional Info:In this miniature depicting Alexander's court life, a blue and gold tapestry hangs on the back wall and Alexander sits at a richly set table on a raised platform. Well-dressed courtiers and musicians around him attend to his needs. In a setting reminiscent of the rich interiors of the Burgundian court, Alexander the Great sits enthroned beneath a canopy at a banquet table. He calls before him one of the women he noticed among the Persian captives. As she kneels before him, he recognizes her as the niece of Artaxerxes III, an earlier king of Persia. Alexander orders an attendant to return her belongings, which he passes to her in a wooden casket. He also orders a search for her husband, who may be the figure in the long blue robe in the foreground.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM24A71_304

Model release

NA

Property release

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

52,4Mo (3,3Mo) / 31,3cm x 42,0cm / 3692 x 4960 (300dpi)

Mots clés

standing female women woman people male man men historical country French France metal figure figures writing monarch guy tables room color king design designs decoration decorative royal medieval gold table canopy kneeling text location century ink tapestries tapestry floral furniture royalty concept script dining table dinner table border decorated banquet manuscript posture lettering flowered motif motifs banquet hall dining room table Colour Macedonia Macedonian gold paint floral border mediaeval enthroned Middle Ages throne gold leaf history historic 15th century banqueting hall courtier fifteenth century illuminated manuscript sovereign tempera vellum Alexander the Great manuscript King of Macedonia Alexander III of Macedon Iskander Iskandar III Folio courtiers Alexander III of Macedonia floral motifs Heritage Art floral motif King of Macedonia folio recto Tempera colours gold leaf gold paint and ink Master of the Jardin de vertueuse consolation Jardin de vertueuse consolation Master Artaxerxes III Artaxerxes