Oedipe se crève les yeux ; suicide de Jocaste ; Etéocle et Polynice se tuent · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Oedipe se crève les yeux ; suicide de Jocaste ; Etéocle et Polynice se tuent
Subject: Suicide; Incest; Murder; Blinding; Oedipus
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Thebes
Description: Jocasta and Oedipus were married and had four children before finding out they were in a mother-and-son marriage. Upon finding out the truth, Oedipus could not live with it and gouged out his eyes, blinding himself. This is represented in the top right of the image, where Oedipus wears a red cloak and gouges both eyes. Below him is Eteocles and Polynices, the sons he and Jocasta had, mutually killing each other in battle. Jocasta, in the pink gown, could not live with the reality that her sons killed each other and that her husband was her son, so she killed herself, represented in the top left of the image.
Image Creator: Master of the Cleres Femmes of the Duke of Berry (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19832
Language: fre
Source Name: Livre des Femmes Nobles et Renommées
Parent Collection: 1403 Paris; 1403 Paris
Image: mta_19832_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Suicide; Incest; Murder; Blinding; Oedipus