Cy apres sensuit hystoire de helene femme de menelaus · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit hystoire de helene femme de menelaus
Subject: Helen; Paris; Trojan War; King Menelaus; Important Women; Famous Women
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Troy; Asia Minor; Modern-day Turkey
Description: This image depicts a large castle in which Helen and Paris of Troy can be seen embracing each other through a window. Because the city is surrounded by a large wall, it is presumably the city of Troy and not Sparta, as Troy was a walled city and Sparta was not. Within the city walls there are two ships depicted floating on the water. This image marks the beginning of the Trojan War, as it began due to Helen, the wife of King Menelaus of Sparta, going to Troy with Prince Paris.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:25620
Language: frm
Source Name: Livre que fist Jehan BOCACE de Certalde des cleres et nobles femmes, lequel il envoia à Audice de Accioroles de Florence, contesse de Haulteville [Book from Giovanni Boccaccio of Certaldo called the cleric and noble women, of which he sent to Audice Accioroles of Florence, Countess of Haulteville]
Parent Collection: 1401 Florence; 1401 Florence
Image: mta_25620_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Helen; Paris; Trojan War; King Menelaus; Important Women; Famous Women