HAA0050-Medieval Art and Architecture: Secular Subjects

NINE WORTHIES:
Hector, Alexander, Julius Caesar;
Joshua, David, Judas Maccabeus;
Arthur, Charlemagne, Godefroi de Bouillon

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
 


 


Hector


 

Joshua, David

Joshua

King Arthur

See Adolpho S. Cavallo, Medieval Tapestries in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1993, no. 2
Frick NK3005 M48 1993
 
 




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