Cy sensuit histoire de sulpice de crusselion femme · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy sensuit histoire de sulpice de crusselion femme
Subject: Exile; Lentulus Cruscellio; Important Women; Famous Women; Devotion; Sulpicia
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Italy; Sicily; Ancient Rome
Description: This illumination depicts a woman named Sulpicia leaving her home to find her exiled husband. Her husband, Lentulus Cruscellio, had evaded proscription and fled to Sicily to live in exile. Sulpicia was incredibly devoted to her husband and left the comfort of home to follow him into exile. There are people on the left side of the image watching Sulpicia leave. Sulpicia is depicted throwing away a red robe as she leaves behind her life to go with her husband.
Image Creator: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:20149
Language: frm
Source Name: Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation
Parent Collection: 1410 Paris; 1410 Paris
Image: mta_20149_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Exile; Lentulus Cruscellio; Important Women; Famous Women; Devotion; Sulpicia