Paulina femme rommanie · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Paulina femme rommanie
Subject: Famous Women; Noble Women; Paulina; Anubis; Gods; Temples; Naivety; Mundus; Important Women
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Italy; Ancient Rome
Description: This illumination depicts a Roman woman named Paulina cutting a garment with scissors. Paulina was a chaste and devout woman and is renowned for her naivety by being tricked into losing her virtue. A man named Mundus had tricked Paulina into thinking that he was the Egyptian god Anubis and tricked her into having sexual relations with him. When Paulina realized she was deceived, her husband went to the emperor and had Mundus exiled.
Image Creator: Robinet Testard (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18098
Language: frm
Source Name: Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme [Boccaccio, The cleric and noble women, anonymous French translation]
Parent Collection: Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme. Illuminations by Robinet Testard (1488-1496); Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme. Illuminations by Robinet Testard (1488-1496)
Image: mta_18098_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Famous Women; Noble Women; Paulina; Anubis; Gods; Temples; Naivety; Mundus; Important Women