Cy sensuit histoire de helene femme de menelaus roy des lacedemoniens · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy sensuit histoire de helene femme de menelaus roy des lacedemoniens
Subject: Paris; The Trojan War; Important Women; Important Queens; Famous Women; Helen
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Lacedaemon; Ancient Greece; Troy; Asia Minor; Sparta
Description: Helen, the queen of Sparta, is illustrated standing on the left side of the image as Paris, the prince of Troy, is touching her arm lovingly. Helen is wearing a crown to signify her royal status. There is a ship on the right side of the image sailing away from Sparta, which symbolizes the beginning of what would become the Trojan War, as the war is caused by Helen going to Troy with Paris.
Image Creator: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19923
Language: frm
Source Name: Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation
Parent Collection: 1410 Paris; 1410 Paris
Image: mta_19923_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Paris; The Trojan War; Important Women; Important Queens; Famous Women; Helen