Anatoli Bernardo Corbetta was Tilea's most famed portraitist of the 6th century IC, and his work was immediately recognizable for its heroic style.[1a]
Corbetta's most famous painting portrays King Louis the Righteous, Duke of Aquitaine, seated upon his snowy destrier, Chevauchée, riding through the broken walls of Lasheik to rout the hosts of the Sultan Jaffar. King and warhorse were depicted life-size, a nimbus of light surrounding the sovereign's head and drawn sword. Before him, the swarthy Arabyans cringed in terror, behind him the face of every Bretonnian in his army was filled with awe.[1a]
Even now, hundreds of years since Corbetta captured the magnificence of the king upon canvas, the portrait still exerts an aura of magnificence, the radiant figure of King Louis in his moment of triumph still inspiring.[1a]
This painting was finished shortly before the death of the king, upon his own command. Louis the Righteous wanted to leave something for his descendants to remember him. The massive portrait is stored in Castle Aquitaine's grand hall. It is poised above the yawning mouth of the grand hall's immense fireplace, anchored into the stone wall by steel hooks in all its magnificence.[1a]