Agrippine femme de germanice · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Agrippine femme de germanice
Subject: Agrippina the Elder; Germanicus; Caligula; Nero; Emperors; Important Women; Famous Women; Noble Women; Agrippina
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Italy; Ancient Rome
Description: This illumination depicts a woman named Agrippina with her three children. She is illustrated holding one child in her arm and looking at her other two children who are standing by her legs. Agrippina was famous for being the mother of the emperor Caligula. She bore her husband, Germanicus, a total of three sons, all of whom are illustrated in this image.
Image Creator: Robinet Testard (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18097
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_18097_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Agrippina the Elder; Germanicus; Caligula; Nero; Emperors; Important Women; Famous Women; Noble Women; Agrippina