Cy sensuit histoire de sabie pompee feme de nero · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy sensuit histoire de sabie pompee feme de nero
Subject: Sabina Poppaea; Emperor Nero; Important Women; Famous Women
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Ancient Rome; Italy
Description: This illumination depicts Sabina Poppaea, the wife of Emperor Nero, sitting in a chariot visibly pregnant. She is depicted wearing a crown and a blue and white dress. Boccaccio explains that Emperor Nero had gotten angry and kicked Sabina in the stomach while she was pregnant, which was the cause of her untimely death. Despite Roman traditions of cremation, Emperor Nero had a public burial for his wife and had her body placed in a sepulcher.
Image Creator: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:25576
Language: frm
Source Name: Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation
Parent Collection: 1410 Paris; 1410 Paris
Image: mta_25576_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Sabina Poppaea; Emperor Nero; Important Women; Famous Women