File:Cyrus II le Grand et les Hébreux.jpg

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Artist



Description	French painter
Date of birth/death	circa 1420	circa 1480
Location of birth/death	Tours	Tours (?)
Work location	Bourges, Tours, Paris, Italy
Authority control	WorldCat

Maître du Boccace de Munich
Alternative names	Louis et/ou François Fouquet, fils de Jean Fouquet, Master of the Munich Boccacio
Description	French illuminator
Work period	1460-1480
Work location	Tours, Paris

Title

Français : La clémence de Cyrus II le Grand envers les Hébreux

Description

Français : Miniature extraite de Flavius Josèphe, Les Antiquités judaïques, Livre XI. Cyrus II le Grand, roi de Perse, permet aux Hébreux, en captivité à Babylone, de retourner dans leur patrie et de reconstruire la ville de Jérusalem et le Temple.

English: This is a depiction of the biblical character, Emperor Cyrus the Great of Persia, who permitted the Hebrews to return to the Holy Land and rebuild God's Temple.

Date

circa 1470-1475

Medium

illumination on parchment

Dimensions

21 × 17.5 cm (8.3 × 6.9 in)

Current location

Bibliothèque nationale de France

	Native name	Bibliothèque Nationale de France
	Location	Paris
	Coordinates	48° 50′ 1.00″ N, 2° 22′ 33.00″ E
	Established	1368
	Website	http://www.bnf.fr
	Authority control	WorldCat

département des Manuscrits

Accession number

Français 247, fol. 230v.

References

François Avril (dir.), Jean Fouquet, peintre et enlumineur du XVe siècle, catalogue de l'exposition, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France / Hazan, 2003, 432 p. ( ISBN 2-7177-2257-2), p.310-322

Source/Photographer

http://expositions.bnf.fr/fouquet/grand/f063.htm

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