# Histoire Ancienne jusqu'a César [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, French]() - Date: 1351-1400 - Technique: Manuscript \(Ms. français 301\) ## Commentary Histoire Ancienne jusqu'a César c. 1400 Manuscript \(Ms. français 301\) Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris This vast manuscript, belonged to the Duc de Berry, contains an account of the history of the ancient world, written like a Gothic romance. In the full-page miniature on folio 147r, shown here, the Greeks, dressed as medieval knights, bring the wooden horse into Troy and subsequently sack the city and put the Trojans to the sword. ## Related artworks - [A History of Western Saints]() - [Antiphoner]() - [Aristotle: De Interpretazione]() - [Aristotle: Works]() - [Augustinus Hipponensis: Quaestiones et locutiones in Heptateuchum]() - [Augustinus Hipponensis: Quaestiones et locutiones in Heptateuchum]() - [Augustinus Hipponensis: Quaestiones et locutiones in Heptateuchum]() - [Beatus of Liébana: Commentary on the Apocalypse]() - [Belleville Breviary]() - [Bible Historiale]() - [Bible moralisée, part I.]() - [Bible moralisée, part I.]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()