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Bagoas/Bagoe Pleads on Behalf of Nabarzanes
Creator
Master of the Jardin de vertueuse consolationFlemish Illuminator
All works by this person →The anonymous illuminator known as the Master of the Jardin de vertueuse consolation was a particularly gifted follower of the popular Antwerp illuminator Lieven van Lathem. He is named after a manuscript of Pierre d'Ailly's *Jardin de vertueuse consolation,* now in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Among the works attributed to him, the Getty Museum's *Livre des fais d'Alexandre le grant* is con
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- about 1470–1475
- Medium
- Tempera colors, gold leaf, gold paint, and ink
- Culture
- French and Flemish
- Department
- Manuscripts
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 915cf78f-3038-461e-bb52-692dc6e14d64
From the Getty Museum record
Bagoas, a handsome eunuch in the original narrative but a beautiful woman in Vasco da Lucena's translation and in the miniature, stands before Alexander in a green gown. She wants to persuade Alexander to pardon Nabarzanes, a Persian who had plotted against the Persian king, Darius III. At the right, Queen Thalestris of the Amazons approaches with her followers, hoping that she can persuade Alexander to father a child with her. Although this is just the sort of story that Vasco dismissed as "false and impossible," he reported it in his translation, and the artists followed his lead by including it in the miniature.
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