Polyxène sacrifiée sur le tombeau d’Achille · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Polyxène sacrifiée sur le tombeau d’Achille
Subject: Betrayal; Loyalty; Bravery; Polyxena; Murder
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Troy
Description: Polyxena, the lover of Achilles, offers her throat on Achilles’ tomb. Neoptolemus, Achilles’ son, holds the sword that will kill her. He wears the red cloak to the left of the image. She offers her life because in part, it seemed as though Polyxena was partially responsible for his death, as her mother Hecuba had her lead Achilles to the location of his death.
Image Creator: Master of the Cleres Femmes of the Duke of Berry (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19878
Language: fre
Source Name: Livre des Femmes Nobles et Renommées
Parent Collection: 1403 Paris; 1403 Paris
Image: mta_19878_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Betrayal; Loyalty; Bravery; Polyxena; Murder