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Title: Von Sabina popea
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Emperor Nero; Sabina Poppaea
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Italy; Ancient Rome
Description: This engraving depicts two separate events. The scene on the right side of the engraving depicts a woman named Sabina Poppaea, a woman of noble birth, seducing emperor Nero. She was incredibly beautiful, as well as cunning. She sought power and found it by marrying emperor Nero, although she did not hold her power for long. The left side of the engraving depicts her tragic fate, as emperor Nero kicks a pregnant Sabina Poppaea, which ends up killing her. Sabina Poppaea’s name, written as “Popea Sabina”, is engraved above her head, and Nero’s name is engraved by his feet.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Engraver)
Type: Text; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:18065
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_18065_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Emperor Nero; Sabina Poppaea