Von Claudia quinta der römerin · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Von Claudia quinta der römerin
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Chastity; Virtue; Goddesses; Claudia Quinta
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Italy; Ancient Rome
Description: This engraving depicts Claudia Quinta, a Roman woman, standing on land as she pulls a ship to shore. Her name, written as “Quinta Claudia”, is engraved at the bottom of the image. Boccaccio explains that after Claudia Quinta was accused by other matrons of not being chaste, she prayed to the goddess Ceres to help prove her virtue. After a ship that contained a statue of Ceres had gotten stuck on a sandbar, Ceres gave Claudia Quinta the power to pull the ship to shore as proof of her chastity. The women who accused Claudia Quinta of being unchaste are standing behind her in the engraving as they watch her pull the ship to shore. The statue of the goddess is illustrated on top of a platform on the ship. Claudia Quinta’s name is engraved below her body to identify her.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Engraver)
Type: Text; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:18054
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_18054_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Chastity; Virtue; Goddesses; Claudia Quinta

Media: mta_18054_OBJ.png