Von casandra die tochter priami · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Von casandra die tochter priami
Subject: The Trojan War; Clytemnestra; Important Women; Famous Women; Important Queens; Agamemnon; Greek Mythology; Cassandra
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Mycenae; Ancient Greece; Asia Minor; Troy
Description: This engraving depicts Cassandra, the daughter of king Priam of Troy on the left side of the engraving being killed under the order of Clytemnestra, who is on the right side of the engraving watching the murder. Boccaccio explains that Cassandra was brought to Mycenae after the Trojan War as king Agamemnon’s concubine. Agamemnon’s wife, Clytemnestra did not like this, and ordered Cassandra to be killed. Cassandra is depicted with a rope around her neck and a man pulling on the rope. Clytemnestra is depicted with a pleased look on her face as she watches Cassandra die. Cassandra’s name is engraved in the top left corner of the engraving to identify her. The fallen city of Troy is depicted in the background of the engraving.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Engraver)
Type: Text; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:17991
Language: ger
Source Name: Hyenach volget der kurcz syn von ettlichen frauen von denen johannes boccacius in latein beschriben hat und doctor heinricus stainhöwel geteütschet [Following the short stories of several women of which Giovanni Boccaccio wrote in Latin, and doctor Heinrich Steinhöwel translated]
Parent Collection: 1473 Augsburg; 1473 Augsburg
Image: mta_17991_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: The Trojan War; Clytemnestra; Important Women; Famous Women; Important Queens; Agamemnon; Greek Mythology; Cassandra

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