Sujet

Orsines Presenting a Gift to Alexander and the Execution of Orsines, about 1470-1475. Creator: Master of the Jardin de vertueuse consolation.

Légende

Orsines Presenting a Gift to Alexander and the Execution of Orsines; Livre des fais d'Alexandre le grant, about 1470-1475. Additional Info: Inside a palatial hall, Orsines, a Persian military leader, kneels before Alexander to offer a gift. As Quintus Curtius Rufus's text recounts, although Orsines gives lavish gifts to Alexander's retinue, he snubs Alexander's lover Bagoas. Furious at being spurned, Bagoas turns Alexander against Orsines. Consistent with his increasingly immoral behavior, Alexander, under the sway of his lover, orders Orsines's death. The execution takes place outdoors at the right. Here, as Alexander and Bagaos watch from the palace steps, an executioner raises his sword above the kneeling Orsines.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM24A76_409

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Droits gérés

Format disponible

89,8Mo (8,3Mo) / 40,0cm x 56,2cm / 4729 x 6634 (300dpi)

Mots clés

people offering arts country French France writing monarch art color king decoration royal death medieval ancient Greek Greece gifts military gift present presents text location century conquest page ink general Iran Iranian royalty tribute concept border decorated manuscript lettering beheaded calligraphy capital punishment decapitated commander Colour Macedonia Macedonian execution mediaeval Persian Middle Ages Persia decapitation 15th century 4th century BC beheading fifteenth century illuminated manuscript sovereign tempera TGN Alexander the Great manuscript King of Macedonia Alexander III of Macedon Iskander Iskandar Alexander III of Macedonia Heritage Art folio recto Tempera colours gold leaf gold paint and ink Master of the Jardin de vertueuse consolation Jardin de vertueuse consolation Master Bagoas Orxines Orsines