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Millefleur, millefleurs or mille-fleur refers to a composition with many different small flowers and plants in the background, usually against a green ground, as though growing in grass. It is primari
The Triumph of Death, or the Three Fates, Flemish tapestry with a typical mille-fleurs background, c. 1510–1520
The birds and animals at inconsistent scales are a feature of the style
À mon seul désir, from the set The Lady and the Unicorn, late 15th century
15th-century tapestry
The Justice of Trajan and Herkinbald was a set of four large panels painted by the Early Netherlandish painter Rogier van der Weyden that decorated one wall of a court-room in the Town Hall of Brussel
A free copy in tapestry of The Justice of Trajan and Herkinbald now in the Historical Museum of Bern.
A detail from The Justice of Trajan and Herkinbald tapestry showing Herkinbald slaying his nephew as a punishment for rape.
Detail believed to be a self-portrait
Heinrich Aldegrever, one of the Little Masters following Albrecht Dürer, depicting Herkinbald on his deathbed slaying his nephew guilty of rape.