# Grandes Chroniques de France de Charles V [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, French]() - Date: 1351-1400 - Technique: Manuscript \(Ms. français 2813\), 350 x 240 mm \(folio size\) ## Commentary Grandes Chroniques de France de Charles V 1375-80 Manuscript \(Ms. français 2813\), 350 x 240 mm \(folio size\) Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris The scenes on folio 4r of the manuscript depict episodes from the Trojan War and the mythical Trojan origins of the French people. In the top left the Greeks land on the coast of Asia Minor. In the top right they besiege the heavily fortified city with its many towers. In the bottom left the surviving Trojans, driven from their conquered city, establish the fortified settlement of Sycambria on the Danube. In the adjoining picture they defeat the Romans in a great cavalry battle. The leader of the Trojans is already clothed and crowned like a French king. ## 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]()