The good king Alexander the Great - Hardcover

Eikon Editores

9788496254206: The good king Alexander the Great

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8496254208 ISBN 13: 9788496254206

Publisher: Eikon Editores, 2007

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Book of art about the facasimile of the story of the good King Alexander the
189 pages.
Hard cover.

This book presents the facsimile created in Franceat the 13th century, and since 1882 is part of the most important treasures of the museum of copper engravings at Berlin. Angelica Rieger, university professor of Romance philology in Aachen, explains each miniatures (100) in the appendix.
In all the universal literature there not exists another historical celebrity who incite more to the fantasy of the antique nations in order to create legends, epopees, songs and novels like the King Alexander (356-323 b. C.).
the illustrated cycle, in ancient French, contains 100 miniatures richly embellished probably ordered by a bishop, as a gift to a young aristocrat in order to put him into the courtly and chivalresque values.
The king Alexander the great, lives episodes of adventure with fantastic civilizations and mythical beings. We can see Alexander as a king full of energy and courage, with a conquer spirit, with strong longing for knowledge, and at the same time as a lord of the gallows and knife without scruples.

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