Alexander the Great

Colin Nouailher · 1541-04-05T00:00:00Z

Three of the four plaques by Nouailher in this case are from a series depicting the Nine Heroes—a grouping of valiant figures popularized by Jacques de Longuyon’s early fourteenth-century romance Les Voeux du Paon (The Vows of the Peacock). Longuyon’s poem was greatly admired at the courts of France and Burgundy and inspired poets and artists throughogut western Europe.