Bérénice poursuit les meurtriers de son fils · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Bérénice poursuit les meurtriers de son fils
Subject: Chariot; Grief; Berenice; Revenge; Murder
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Cappadocia
Description: When Berenice found out about the murders of her two sons by Mithridates, she was devastated. In her grief, she sought out Mithridates to get revenge. When she found Caeneus, the king’s servant who committed her sons’ murders, she struck him to the ground with a rock and then ran over his body with her chariot. The image depicts Berenice in her chariot, surrounded by soldiers as she looks for the man who killed her sons. She holds a lance in one hand as a weapon, and in the other hand she holds the rock that would strike Caeneus to the ground. Caeneus is depicted in the yellow armor, looking up at Berenice.
Image Creator: Master of the Cleres Femmes of the Duke of Berry (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:20200
Language: fre
Source Name: Livre des Femmes Nobles et Renommées
Parent Collection: 1403 Paris; 1403 Paris
Image: mta_20200_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Chariot; Grief; Berenice; Revenge; Murder