Fifteen Cuttings from Histoire de Charles Martel
A fifteenth-century French manuscript illumination cycle from the Histoire de Charles Martel, made around 1463 for a courtly readership and now held by the J. Paul Getty Museum. The pictures show armoured knights on horseback, crowded battle lines, tents, and walled towns painted in rich gold and jewel-toned pigments above columns of red-initialed text, offering a designer dense medieval costume, heraldic banners, and layered narrative staging.
