Cy apres sensuit de olimpiade royne tres noble de macone · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit de olimpiade royne tres noble de macone
Subject: Olympias; King Philip II; Important Women; Famous Women; Murder
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Macedonia; Ancient Greece
Description: This illumination depicts Olympias, the queen of Macedonia, executing people for personal revenge and for the throne. Olympias’s husband, King Philip II of Macedonia, accused her of being unfaithful to him and proceeded to marry another woman and have children with her. To exact her revenge, Olympias had Cleopatra (Philip’s new wife) and their daughter murdered. She also arranged for the assassination of King Philip. The dead bodies of those she had killed are on the left side of the image, one being King Philip as he has a crown on his head. Olympias is in the centre of the image wearing a crown and a pink dress with her arms around two women. These women are most likely Cleopatra and her daughter.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:25630
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_25630_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Olympias; King Philip II; Important Women; Famous Women; Murder

Media: mta_25630_OBJ.jpg