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In Italy they are known as i Nove Prodi. ... Nine Worthies of London is a book by Richard Johnson, written in 1592, which borrows the theme from the Nine Worthies.
The cycle, completed soon after 1420, portrays the Nove Prodi, the Nine Worthies with their Nine Female Heroines. The artist may have used as models members of the House of the Margraves of Saluzzo. The figures are shown wearing precious contemporary clothing.
Nine Worthies of London is a book by Richard Johnson, ... Sir John Hawkwood, who served under Edward III in France and later became a mercenary commander in Italy ...
Around 1310, Jacques de Longuyon wrote the Voeux de Paon ("Vows of the Peacock"), which included a list of nine famous leaders. This list, divided into three groups of three, became known in art and literature as the Nine Worthies. [5] Each of the Nine Worthies were given a coat of arms. King David, for instance, was assigned a gold harp as a ...
Fresco by Giacomo Jaquerio in the Castello della Manta (1420), meant to represent both Manfred I and Godfrey of Bouillon as one of the Nine Worthies [1]. Manfred I (died 1175) was the founder and first ruler of the marquisate of Saluzzo from 1142 until his death.
King David, as one of the Nine Worthies. The Hall of Sixtus IV was originally a vast open room without roofing. In 1476 pope Sixtus IV stayed for a short time in this palace, while Rome was afflicted with the plague. The pontiff's emblem can still be seen on the wooden ceiling of this hall and of the Hall of the Emperors.
The windows of the second-floor Long Gallery are divided by niches containing statues, an Italian Renaissance feature exemplified at the Palazzo degli Uffizi in Florence (1560–81), which at Montacute depict the Nine Worthies dressed as Roman soldiers; the bay windows have shallow segmented pediments – a very early and primitive occurrence ...
The banquet of the peacock, scene from a manuscript of Les Voeux du paon The Nine Worthies. Jacques de Longuyon of Lorraine was the author of a chanson de geste, Les Voeux du paon ("The Vows of the Peacock"), written for Thibaut de Bar, bishop of Liège in 1312.