Cy apres sensuit histoire de triarie de lucien vitellien femme · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit histoire de triarie de lucien vitellien femme
Subject: Lucius Vitellius; Important Women; Famous Women; War; Triaria
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Italy; Ancient Rome
Description: This illumination depicts a woman named Triaria wearing armour and holding an axe above her head. There are other soldiers standing with Triaria as they kill the people lying on the ground. Triaria is renowned for her military skills and devotion to her husband, Lucius Vitellius. She is depicted wearing a helmet and holding an axe in this image to demonstrate her fighting capabilities. Boccaccio explains that Triaria followed her husband into an enemy city and she fought violently and killed many citizens in order to magnify her husband’s glory.
Image Creator: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:25577
Language: frm
Source Name: Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation
Parent Collection: 1410 Paris; 1410 Paris
Image: mta_25577_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Lucius Vitellius; Important Women; Famous Women; War; Triaria