The eight phases of the Song of Roland in one picture; illustration by Simon Marmion from an illuminated manuscript of the Grandes Chroniques de France (15th century), currently preserved in the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg. A crowded mass of armored knights clashes in the center-left foreground; nobles and clergy watch near a city gate at bottom left; a small chapel with clerics reading sits at bottom right; mounted courtiers and falconers appear at top right; and dark, symbolic cloud shapes with faint winged figures frame the upper corners. Rolling hills and a distant town fill the background.