About 10 results for ‘Roland’
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Roland
Roland (died 14 August 778) was a Frankish military leader under Charlemagne who became one of the principal figures in the literary cycle known as the Matter of France. Historically, Roland was military governor of the Breton March, with responsibility for defending the frontier of Francia against the Bretons. His only historical attestation is in Einhard's Vita Karoli Magni, which describes him as Hruodlandus Brittannici limitis praefectus ("Roland, prefect of the limits of Brittany") when narrating his death at the Battle of Roncesvalles, when the rearguard, under his command, and the baggage train of a Frankish army was beset by rebellious Basques. Roland's death during retreat from the Battle of Roncevaux Pass in Iberia was transmogrified in later medieval and Renaissance literature. He became the chief paladin of the emperor Charlemagne and a central figure in the legendary material surrounding him, collectively known as the Matter of France. The first and most famous of these epic treatments was the Old French Chanson de Roland of the eleventh century. Two masterpieces of Italian Renaissance poetry, the Orlando innamorato and Orlando furioso, are even further detached from history than the earlier Chansons. Roland is poetically associated with his sword Durendal, his horse Veillantif, and his horn Oliphaunt.
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- Artist(s):
- Odilon Redon
Roland à Roncevaux
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- Portrayed subject:
- Equestrianism
- Horse
- Roland
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- Date:
- 19th century
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Roland combattant l'orque pour délivrer Olympe
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Mount Olympus
- Roland
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Luca Cambiasi
Roger et Angélique, enlacés sous un arbre
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Date:
- 16th century
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- Artist(s):
- Nicolas-Guy Brenet
Roland délivre de Torque la belle Olympe ; Roland délivre...
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Château
- Man
- Middle Ages
- Roland
- Tree
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- Date:
- 18th century
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Colosses célèbres, la colonne de Roland à Halberstadt (ha...
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- Portrayed subject:
- City
- Discourse
- Germany
- Magistrate
- Middle Ages
- Roland
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- Date:
- 20th century
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Roland à Roncevaux 778 (titre inscrit)
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- Field(s):
- Ceramic
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- Portrayed subject:
- Chivalry
- Gold
- Horn (anatomy)
- Roland
- Roncevaux Pass
- Serviceman
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La meute, étude
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Allegory
- Cadaver
- Forest
- Roland
- Roncevaux Pass
- Serviceman
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- Date:
- 20th century
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La meute, étude
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Allegory
- Cadaver
- Forest
- Roland
- Roncevaux Pass
- Serviceman
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- Date:
- 19th century
- 20th century
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- Artist(s):
- Gustave Doré
- Louis Christophe François Hachette
Le Roland furieux
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- Field(s):
- Printing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Roland
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- Date:
- 16th century
- 19th century
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