Agrippine mere de neron · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Agrippine mere de neron
Subject: Famous Women; Noble Women; Agrippina; Agrippina the Younger; Nero; Claudius; Emperors; Assassination; Important Women
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Italy; Ancient Rome
Description: This illumination depicts a portrait of a woman named Agrippina holding a mushroom while looking at herself in what appears to be a mirror. Agrippina is famous for being the mother of Emperor Nero and being a powerful empress. She married Emperor Claudius (who was also her uncle) and is said to have killed him by poisoning mushrooms that he ate in order to make her son the emperor.
Image Creator: Robinet Testard (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18099
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_18099_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Famous Women; Noble Women; Agrippina; Agrippina the Younger; Nero; Claudius; Emperors; Assassination; Important Women