Virginius tue sa fille Virginia · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Virginius tue sa fille Virginia
Subject: Murder; Verginia; Rome
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Rome
Description: Verginius, in the red cloak, stabs his daughter Verginia in the chest. He knew that the only way she could be free and not captured or a slave was to be dead, so he did what he felt was right. Verginia in the blue gown is stabbed to the right of the image.
Image Creator: Master of the Cleres Femmes of the Duke of Berry (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:20178
Language: fre
Source Name: Livre des Femmes Nobles et Renommées
Parent Collection: 1403 Paris; 1403 Paris
Image: mta_20178_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Murder; Verginia; Rome