Helene femme de menelaus roy des lacedemonens · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Helene femme de menelaus roy des lacedemonens
Subject: Important Queens; Helen; Menelaus; The Trojan War; Paris; Important Women; Famous Women
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Ancient Greece; Troy; Asia Minor; Lacedaemon; Sparta
Description: This illumination depicts a portrait of Helen, wife of king Menelaus of Lacedaemon (Sparta). She is illustrated sitting while holding a scepter in her right hand. Boccaccio explains that Helen was renowned for her incomparable beauty. She is the reason the Trojan War began, as she was either taken, or went willingly with Paris of Troy to Troy.
Image Creator: Robinet Testard (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:17156
Language: frm
Source Name: Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme [Boccaccio, The cleric and noble women, anonymous French translation]
Parent Collection: Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme. Illuminations by Robinet Testard (1488-1496); Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme. Illuminations by Robinet Testard (1488-1496)
Image: mta_17156_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Important Queens; Helen; Menelaus; The Trojan War; Paris; Important Women; Famous Women