Dripetrua à deux visages servant à table son père Mithridate · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Dripetrua à deux visages servant à table son père Mithridate
Subject: Dripetrua; Loyalty; Flaws; Ugliness; Mithridates; Deformities
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Laodicea
Description: Dripetrua was cursed with having a twin set of teeth, making her very ugly. She proved that this flaw was done by nature and not by parentage, as she followed her father, Mithridates, loyally regardless of circumstances. She is seen serving her father at the dinner table. Her twin set of teeth is represented as a face on the back of her head.
Image Creator: Master of the Cleres Femmes of the Duke of Berry (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:20206
Language: fre
Source Name: Livre des Femmes Nobles et Renommées
Parent Collection: 1403 Paris; 1403 Paris
Image: mta_20206_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Dripetrua; Loyalty; Flaws; Ugliness; Mithridates; Deformities