[Thamyris Painting a Portrait] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Thamyris Painting a Portrait]
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Painting; Thamyris
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Ancient Greece
Description: This illumination depicts a young woman named Thamyris sitting in front of an easel as she holds a brush with her right hand and a pallet in her left as she paints a portrait of woman and a child. Boccaccio explains that Thamyris was renowned for her exceptional painting skills and was the daughter of a famous painter (Micon). There is a person on the right side of the image who is assumed to be Micon. There is a table in the foreground of the image that has painting tools on it such as a box of paint brushes.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19985
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_19985_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Painting; Thamyris