Subject: noble knight-nobleman
Culture: Valois French nobility
Setting: Wars of Religion, France mid-late 16thc
Object: bouclier shield
Metropolitan Museum of Art > Stone Gallery of Arms and Armor *
"Shield Depicting the Siege of Troy Embossed steel French, about 1580-90
The scenes include the abduction of Helen (lower left), the struggle of Achilles and Hector before Priam and his court (lower right),
battles at sea and on land between the Greeks and the Trojans (middle), and the entrance of the wooden horse through the gates of Troy (top)." ...
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