Agamemnon frappe Egisthe, tandis que Clytemnestre l’aide à enlever son manteau · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Agamemnon frappe Egisthe, tandis que Clytemnestre l’aide à enlever son manteau
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Troy
Description: Clytemnestra, in the blue gown, strategically helps Agamemnon remove his cloak. While she does so, her lover Aegisthus strikes and kills Agamemnon. Aegisthus is pictured in the pink cloak swinging a sword. The man wearing the black cloak is representative of the death that was to follow.
Image Creator: Master of the Cleres Femmes of the Duke of Berry (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19881
Language: fre
Source Name: Livre des Femmes Nobles et Renommées
Parent Collection: 1403 Paris; 1403 Paris
Image: mta_19881_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Strategy; Trickery; Clytemnestra; Aegisthus; Murder