[Dripetrua Eating Food with her Two Sets of Teeth] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Dripetrua Eating Food with her Two Sets of Teeth]
Subject: Important Women; Deformities; Dripetrua
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Anatolia; Pontus
Description: This illustration depicts a woman named Dripetrua, the daughter of king Mithridates VI of Pontus. Boccaccio explains that she was born with two sets of teeth, however, this image depicts Dripetrua with what appears to be three faces. She is depicted putting food into the two mouths on each side of her face.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:12025
Language: frm
Source Name: De la louenge et vertu des nobles et cleres dames [Of praise and virtue of the noble and clergy women]
Parent Collection: 1493 Paris; 1493 Paris
Image: mta_12025_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Important Women; Deformities; Dripetrua