Alexander the Great. Artist: Based on a woodcut by Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen (Netherlandish, Oostsanen ca. 1470-1533 Amsterdam). Culture: French, Limoges. Dimensions: Diameter: 9 in. (22.9 cm). Enameler: Colin Nouailher (French, active 1539, d. after 1571). Date: ca. 1541.Alexander is one of the Nine Heroes celebrated in French literary tradition who were popularized by Jacques de Longuyon in his early fourteenth-century romance Les Voeux du Paon. Longuyon's poem was greatly admired at the courts of France and Burgundy, and its subject inspired poets and artists throughout western Europe. Jan de Clerks's poem Leken Spieghel introduced the Nine Heroes to the Netherlands shortly after Longuyon's work appeared, and the subject was still current in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, when several Flemish and Dutch printmakers illustrated the Heroes as mounted warriors wearing flamboyant headgear. A woodcut by Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen (before 1470-1533) provided the

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Alexander the Great. Artist: Based on a woodcut by Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen (Netherlandish, Oostsanen ca. 1470-1533 Amsterdam). Culture: French, Limoges. Dimensions: Diameter: 9 in. (22.9 cm). Enameler: Colin Nouailher (French, active 1539, d. after 1571). Date: ca. 1541.Alexander is one of the Nine Heroes celebrated in French literary tradition who were popularized by Jacques de Longuyon in his early fourteenth-century romance Les Voeux du Paon. Longuyon's poem was greatly admired at the courts of France and Burgundy, and its subject inspired poets and artists throughout western Europe. Jan de Clerks's poem Leken Spieghel introduced the Nine Heroes to the Netherlands shortly after Longuyon's work appeared, and the subject was still current in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, when several Flemish and Dutch printmakers illustrated the Heroes as mounted warriors wearing flamboyant headgear. A woodcut by Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen (before 1470-1533) provided the

SuperStock offers millions of photos, videos, and stock assets to creatives around the world. This image of Alexander the Great. Artist: Based on a woodcut by Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen (Netherlandish, Oostsanen ca. 1470-1533 Amsterdam). Culture: French, Limoges. Dimensions: Diameter: 9 in. (22.9 cm). Enameler: Colin Nouailher (French, active 1539, d. after 1571). Date: ca. 1541.Alexander is one of the Nine Heroes celebrated in French literary tradition who were popularized by Jacques de Longuyon in his early fourteenth-century romance Les Voeux du Paon. Longuyon's poem was greatly admired at the courts of France and Burgundy, and its subject inspired poets and artists throughout western Europe. Jan de Clerks's poem Leken Spieghel introduced the Nine Heroes to the Netherlands shortly after Longuyon's work appeared, and the subject was still current in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, when several Flemish and Dutch printmakers illustrated the Heroes as mounted warriors wearing flamboyant headgear. A woodcut by Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen (before 1470-1533) provided the by Album/Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY/Album Archivo is available for licensing today.