Virginie vierge fille de virginus · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Virginie vierge fille de virginus
Subject: Verginius; Chastity; Important Women; Famous Women; Verginia
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Italy; Ancient Rome
Description: This illumination depicts a portrait of a woman named Verginia. Verginia was a Roman woman and daughter to a name man Verginius. Verginia is famous for having been killed by her father to save her from slavery. A decemvir had fallen in love with Verginia and devised a plan to make her a slave so that he could have her as his own. Her father stabbed her to save her and her chastity from being defiled.
Image Creator: Robinet Testard (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18036
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_18036_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Verginius; Chastity; Important Women; Famous Women; Verginia