La noble ysiphile royne de Lemnos · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: La noble ysiphile royne de Lemnos
Subject: Famous Women; Important Queens; Thaos; Hypsipyle; Important Women
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Ancient Greece; Lemnos; Aegean Sea
Description: This illuminated image depicts a woman named Hypsipyle saying goodbye to her father, king Thaos of Lemnos as he sails away on a boat. Hypsipyle is illustrated kneeling by the shore as she waves goodbye to Thaos. Thaos is depicted lifting his hat as a gesture to say good bye to his daughter. Hypsipyle warned her father of an attack that the women of Lemnos had planned. The women had planned to kill every man of the city to eliminate the patriarchy. Hypsipyle, unable to allow her father to die, told him of this plan and helped him escape by means of this boat.
Image Creator: Robinet Testard (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:17135
Language: frm
Source Name: Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme [Boccaccio, The cleric and noble women, anonymous French translation]
Parent Collection: Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme. Illuminations by Robinet Testard (1488-1496); Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme. Illuminations by Robinet Testard (1488-1496)
Image: mta_17135_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Famous Women; Important Queens; Thaos; Hypsipyle; Important Women