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GODS AND MYTHS
Historia Troiana / Cycles / Grenier, Pasquier (Tournai tapestries and related drawings) / Tapestry 10: Death of Penthesilea and treachery of Aeneas and Antenor
Historia Troiana / Events before the Trojan War / Ulysses and Diomedes demand the return of Helen, Priam refuses
Historia Troiana / The War of Troy / Main episodes / The Amazons join the Trojans / Penthesilea killed by Neoptolemus in battle
Historia Troiana / The War of Troy / Main episodes / The theft of the Palladium / Ulysses persuades Antenor and Aeneas to steal the Palladium
Further details
Left-hand side: twenty-third battle with death of Penthesilea; centre: top: Antenor and Aeneas persuaded by Ulysses to betray Troy; bottom: Ulysses and Diomedes come to the gate pretending to come in peace; right-hand side: top: Antenor takes the Palladium; bottom: Prodigia denoting the end of Troy
Artist or creator
Date
15th century (late)
Location
Paris, Musée du Louvre, Département des Arts graphiques (inv. RF 2146)
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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