Cy apres sensuit de marianme des iuifs royne · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit de marianme des iuifs royne
Subject: Important Queens; Famous Women; Noble Women; Beauty; Mariamne; King Herod; Important Women
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Judaea; Herodian Kingdom
Description: This illumination depicts Mariamne, the queen of Judaea, standing on the left side of the image wearing a blue dress and a crown. Mariamne was renowned for her incredible beauty, and for having been the wife of the jealous King Herod. Boccaccio explains that King Herod was so jealous and protective of Mariamne, that he did not want her to outlive him. He devised a plan for someone to murder Mariamne if he were to die before her, so that no one else could have her. The assassin is illustrated on the right side of the image swinging a sword above his head to kill Mariamne.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18519
Language: frm
Source Name: Livre que fist Jehan BOCACE de Certalde des cleres et nobles femmes, lequel il envoia à Audice de Accioroles de Florence, contesse de Haulteville [Book from Giovanni Boccaccio of Certaldo called the cleric and noble women, of which he sent to Audice Accioroles of Florence, Countess of Haulteville]
Parent Collection: 1401 Florence; 1401 Florence
Image: mta_18519_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Important Queens; Famous Women; Noble Women; Beauty; Mariamne; King Herod; Important Women