Cy apres sensuit de dipetruie de Laodice royne et du grand mitridate · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit de dipetruie de Laodice royne et du grand mitridate
Subject: Mithridates; Filial Devotion; Important Women; Famous Women; Important Queens; Dripetrua
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Anatolia; Modern day Turkey; Pontus
Description: This illumination depicts a Dripetrua sitting at a dinner table with her father, King Mithridates of Pontus. They are both depicted wearing crowns. Boccaccio explains that Dripetrua was born with two sets of teeth and was incredibly hideous, however, she was also very devoted to her father, which deserved praise.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: StillImage; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18499
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_18499_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Mithridates; Filial Devotion; Important Women; Famous Women; Important Queens; Dripetrua