Cy apres sensuit histoire de medee tres expte enchanterelle et royne des colchiens · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit histoire de medee tres expte enchanterelle et royne des colchiens
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Important Queens; Magic; Jason; Medea
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Modern day Georgia; Colchis
Description: This illumination depicts Medea sitting in the centre of the image wearing a blue dress and holding a scroll of parchment. She was renowned for her skills in magic and potion making. She had fallen in love with the Trojan hero Jason, and she betrayed her family to help him achieve his endeavors. She took her father’s treasure and fled with Jason, and to delay her father from going after them, she dismembered her young brother and scattered his remains for her father to find. Medea’s brother is about to be dismembered by a solder on the right side of the image. The sword of the soldier is illustrated going outside of the frame of the illumination. Jason is illustrated sitting on a horse on the left side of the image.
Image Creator: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19834
Language: frm
Source Name: Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation
Parent Collection: 1410 Paris; 1410 Paris
Image: mta_19834_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Important Queens; Magic; Jason; Medea