Von Nicaula · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Von Nicaula
Subject: Important Queens; Famous Women; Nicaula; Solomon; Wisdom; Important Women
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Ethiopia; Egypt; Jerusalem
Description: This engraving depicts Nicaula, the queen of Ethiopia, on the right side of the engraving shaking hands with king Solomon of Jerusalem. We know that these figures are Nicaula and Solomon as their names are engraved beside their heads. Nicaula, as Boccaccio explains, was incredibly wise and wanted to hear and listen to the wisdom and intellect of Solomon. She had traveled from Ethiopia to Jerusalem to meet him. This engraving depicts their first meeting. Behind Nicaula is presumably one of her servants, who is carrying a balsam tree. The tree was one of many gifts that Nicaula had given to Solomon.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Engraver)
Type: Text; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:17999
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_17999_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Important Queens; Famous Women; Nicaula; Solomon; Wisdom; Important Women