Cy apres sensuit de la noble ysiphille royne de lemnie · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit de la noble ysiphille royne de lemnie
Subject: King Thaos; Important Women; Famous Women; Important Queens; Murder; Hypsipyle
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Ancient Greece; Aegean Sea; Lemnos
Description: This illuminated image depicts a woman named Hypsipyle saying goodbye to her father, King Thaos of Lemnos, as he sails away on a boat. Hypsipyle is illustrated standing by the shore with her twin boys as she waves goodbye to Thaos. Hypsipyle warned her father of an attack that the women of Lemnos had planned. The women had planned to kill every man of the city to eliminate the patriarchy. Hypsipyle, unable to allow her father to die, told him of this plan and helped him escape by means of this boat. There are two women wearing helmets and holding swords on the left side of the image to represent the women of Lemnos who are killing all the men.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18430
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_18430_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: King Thaos; Important Women; Famous Women; Important Queens; Murder; Hypsipyle

Media: mta_18430_OBJ.jpg