Title

Plate 2: Alexander Cutting the Gordian Knot, from The Deeds of Alexander the Great, 1608.

Caption

Plate 2: Alexander Cutting the Gordian Knot, from The Deeds of Alexander the Great, 1608., Creator: Antonio Tempesta.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM20A98_344

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NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

27,8Mb (5,1Mb) / 11,7in x 9,2in / 3508 x 2767 (300dpi)

Keywords

Italy Italian people male man men cutting country monarch guy weapon weapons museum headdress king royal Greece turban turbans war Renaissance location century sword gesturing knot blade royalty swords concept B&W hand gesture headgear warfare 17th century head-dress Macedonia Macedonian The Met Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art black & white black and white B W weaponry Ancient Greece Ancient Greek seventeenth century sovereign TGN Alexander the Great King of Macedonia Alexander III of Macedon Iskander Iskandar Gordian knot Antonio Tempesta Tempesta Antonio Alexander III of Macedonia Heritage Art etching Etching first state of two (Bartsch)