# Benoît de Sainte Maure: Roman de Troie [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, Italian]() - Date: 1301-1350 - Technique: Manuscript \(Fr. Z. 17\) ## Commentary Benoît de Sainte Maure: Roman de Troie 1330s Manuscript \(Fr. Z. 17\) Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice Benoît de Sainte Maure, a French twelfth-century poet, was probably a vassal of King Henry II. His most famous work is the Roman de Troie, written between 1160 and 1165. It draws on Latin works but its style is very personal. The text of the manuscript is laid out in two columns and there are miniatures on almost every page. The scenes on folio 21v, shown here, depicts the embassy of Antenor to Greece. ## Related artworks - [Alessandro Cortesi: Poem]() - [Antiphonary]() - [Antiphonary]() - [Antiphonary]() - [Antiphoner]() - [Antiphoner]() - [Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics]() - [Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics]() - [Armiranda]() - [Aulus Gellius: Noctes Atticae]() - [Averulino: On the Architecture]() - [Baldo Martorelli: Grammar]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()