Von Martesia und Lampedone den künigten in Amazonia · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Von Martesia und Lampedone den künigten in Amazonia
Subject: Martesia; Lampedo; Important Women; Famous Women; Important Queens; Roman Mythology; Greek Mythology; Amazons
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Thermodon; Black Sea; Anatolia; Themiscyra
Description: This engraving depicts the queens of the Amazons, Martesia and Lampedo. The Amazons, as described by Boccaccio, were a group of widows who decided to take up arms and fight to avenge their husbands’ deaths. They began dedicating their lives to training in riding horse-back, archery, and other military skills. The Amazons elected Lampedo and Martesia to be their queens. Lampedo is depicted with a bow and arrow in her left hand as she rides her horse, with her name engraved beside her head. Martesia is illustrated looking back at Lampedo with a sword in her hand. Her name is engraved to the left of her sword. The women riding behind them are other Amazon women.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Engraver)
Type: Text; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:17964
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_17964_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Martesia; Lampedo; Important Women; Famous Women; Important Queens; Roman Mythology; Greek Mythology; Amazons

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