Cy apres sensuit hystoire de orithie et anthiope royne des amazones, cest des femmes bataillerelles · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit hystoire de orithie et anthiope royne des amazones, cest des femmes bataillerelles
Subject: Orithya; Antiope; Hercules; Twelve Labours; Important Women; Famous Women
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Thermodon; Themiscyra; Modern-day Turkey
Description: Queens Orithya and Antiope are on the left side of the image depicted riding horses with helmets on. They are differentiated as Amazon women as they are illustrated wearing dresses. They are holding long spears as they ride towards the figure on the right side of the image. The figure on the right side of the image riding a horse towards the queens is Hercules. One of Hercules’ twelve labours was to retrieve the royal girdle from the queens. Two of the queens’ unidentified companions are depicted standing behind them.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:25609
Language: frm
Source Name: Livre que fist Jehan BOCACE de Certalde des cleres et nobles femmes, lequel il envoia à Audice de Accioroles de Florence, contesse de Haulteville [Book from Giovanni Boccaccio of Certaldo called the cleric and noble women, of which he sent to Audice Accioroles of Florence, Countess of Haulteville]
Parent Collection: 1401 Florence; 1401 Florence
Image: mta_25609_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Orithya; Antiope; Hercules; Twelve Labours; Important Women; Famous Women