Penthésilée, reine des Amazones, chevauchant avec ses compagnes · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Penthésilée, reine des Amazones, chevauchant avec ses compagnes
Subject: Battle; Horseback; Penthesilea; Troy
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Troy
Description: Penthisilea heard of the Trojan Hector and without ever seeing or meeting him, fell in love with him. She desperately wanted to have children born to him and decided to gather many of her people to help Hector in his campaign against the Greeks. The image portrays Penthesilea, in the center wearing a red gown, leading her people that surround her on horseback toward Troy.
Image Creator: Master of the Cleres Femmes of the Duke of Berry (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19877
Language: fre
Source Name: Livre des Femmes Nobles et Renommées
Parent Collection: 1403 Paris; 1403 Paris
Image: mta_19877_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Battle; Horseback; Penthesilea; Troy