Penelopee femme de Ulixes · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Penelopee femme de Ulixes
Subject: Famous Women; Important Queens; Ulysses; The Trojan War; Devotion; Chastity; Penelope; Important Women
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Ithaca; Ancient Greece
Description: This illuminated image depicts a woman named Penelope, who was the wife of the hero Ulysses. Penelope is renowned for having remained chaste while her husband was away fighting in the Trojan War. Ulysses was gone for ten years during the war, and another ten years trying to get back home. Penelope had many suitors over the twenty years of Ulysses’ absence, however she remained faithful to her husband.
Image Creator: Robinet Testard (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:17708
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_17708_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Famous Women; Important Queens; Ulysses; The Trojan War; Devotion; Chastity; Penelope; Important Women