The Trojans Bring the Wooden Horse into Their City

Art Historical Context

Behold *The Trojans Bring the Wooden Horse into Their*, a captivating etching by Jean Mignon and Luca Penni, created between 1535 and1555. This large-scale print (12 15/16 x 17 9/16 in.) depicts a pivotal moment from the Trojan War myth: jubilant Trojans hauling the deceptive wooden horse—gift of the Greeks—through their city gates, unaware of the doom it carries. Now housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department it exemplifies the Renaissance fascination with classical epics like Virgil's *Aeneid*. Mignon and Penni, key figures in France's School of Fontainebleau,...