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GODS AND MYTHS

Historia Troiana / Cycles / Grenier, Pasquier (Tournai tapestries and related drawings) / Tapestry 11: Sack of Troy
Historia Troiana / The War of Troy / Main episodes / The Trojan Horse / The Trojans pull the horse into the city
Historia Troiana / The War of Troy / Main episodes / The sack of Troy / Priam killed by Neoptolemus / Priam killed in the temple of Apollo / Alone
Historia Troiana / The War of Troy / Main episodes / The sack of Troy / Sacrifice of Polyxena / Hecuba entrusts Polyxena to Antenor, who delivers her to Neoptolemus
Historia Troiana / The War of Troy / Main episodes / The sack of Troy / Sacrifice of Polyxena / Neoptolemus sacrificing Polyxena at Achilles's tomb / Alone
Historia Troiana / The War of Troy / Main episodes / The sack of Troy / Trojan women taken prisoner / Cassandra / Miscellaneous
Historia Troiana / The War of Troy / Main episodes / The sack of Troy / Trojan women taken prisoner / Helen / Recovered by Menelaus
Historia Troiana / The War of Troy / Main episodes / The sack of Troy / Miscellaneous

SOCIAL LIFE

Authors, scholars and philosophers / Scholar in their studio

Further details

Top left: Capture of Helen; left half: Entry of the Trojan Horse; centre right: Neoptolemus kills Priam, above (left) Polyxena is entrusted to the traitor Antenor, (right) Ajax taking Hecuba and Cassandra; right: Neoptolemus kills Polyxena; at the very right the author

Artist or creator

Coëtivy Master (active c1450-1480)
anonymous

Date

15th century (late)

Location

Paris, Musée du Louvre, Département des Arts graphiques (inv. RF 2147)

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; B. Kurth, Die Blütezeit der Bildwirkerkunst zu Tournai und der Burgundische Hof, Wien 1917

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Louvre Arts Graphiques

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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