based on the text of Jacques de Longuyon, Voeux du paon
NINE FEMALE WORTHIES:
Semiramis, Queen of the Assyrians; Tharimis, Queen
of the Scythians; Deliphila conqueror of Thebes; Lampedo; Menalippa;
Marpesia
and Dythia, Queens of the Amazons; Penthesilea, Queen of the Amazons,
ally
of the Trojans, killer of Achilles; Hippolita, conquered by Theseus
elaborated in Thomas de Saluces, Le Chevalier
errant
Thomas de Saluces, Le Chevalier errant: Paris, BNF fr. 12559 (1394)
f. 125 |
f. 125, detail |
f. 125v |
See M. Keen Chivalry, New Haven and London, 1984, p. 121,
pl.
28, 29 (ff. 125, 125v)
Hillman CR4513 .K44 1984
M. Pastoureau, Traité d'héraldique, Paris, 1979,
p. 263, fig. 274 (f. 125v)
M. Meiss, French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry, 2
vols.,
London and New York, 1967, I, 356 (attributed to the Master of the
Cité
des dames)
M. Warner, Joan of Arc, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1981, 207-17
The Nine Worthies Tapestry, New York, Metropolitan Museum, The Cloisters
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Joshua |
King Arthur |
See Adolpho S. Cavallo, Medieval Tapestries in the Metropolitan
Museum
of Art, New York, 1993, no. 2
Frick NK3005 M48 1993