Cy apres sensuit de sulpice de crussellion femme · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit de sulpice de crussellion femme
Subject: Exile; Lentulus Cruscellio; Important Women; Famous Women; Devotion; Sulpicia
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Italy; Sicily; Ancient Rome
Description: This illumination depicts a woman named Sulpicia leaving her home to find her exiled husband. Her husband, Lentulus Cruscellio, had evaded proscription and fled to Sicily to live in exile. Lentulus is depicted on the right side of the image looking over to Sulpicia who is illustrated wearing a red dress. Sulpicia was incredibly devoted to her husband and left the comfort of home to follow him into exile. There are people on the left side of the image watching Sulpicia leave. Sulpicia is depicted throwing away a green robe as she leaves behind her life to go with her husband.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18510
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_18510_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Exile; Lentulus Cruscellio; Important Women; Famous Women; Devotion; Sulpicia