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Historia Troiana / Cycles / Grenier, Pasquier (Tournai tapestries and related drawings) / Drawings by the Coëtivy Master (perhaps models for the tapestries)
Historia Troiana / Cycles / Grenier, Pasquier (Tournai tapestries and related drawings) / Tapestry 6: Preparations for a fight between Achilles and Hector and battle with a Centaur
Historia Troiana / Cycles / Grenier, Pasquier (Tournai tapestries and related drawings) / Tapestry 7: Achilles sees Polyxena at the anniversary of Hector's death and falls in love with her
Historia Troiana / The War of Troy / Main episodes / Death of Hector / Andromache urges Hector not to fight Achilles / With Astyanax
Historia Troiana / The War of Troy / Main episodes / Death of Hector / Priam forbidding Hector to go to battle

Further details

left panel: The love-sick Achilles trying in vain to persuade the Greeks to end the siege, and above the twelfth batte (tapestry 7); right panel: Andromache (top) and Priam (bottom) urge Hector not to go to war (tapestry 6)

Artist or creator

Coëtivy Master (active c1450-1480)

Date

15th century (late)

Location

Paris, Musée du Louvre, Département des Arts graphiques (inv. RF 2143)

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

A. S. Cavallo, Medieval Tapestries in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1993; J-P. Asselberghs, Les Tapisseries Tournaisiennes de la Guerre de Troie, Brussels 1972.

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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