Cy apres sensuit hystoire de medee tres experte enchanteresse royne des colchiens · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit hystoire de medee tres experte enchanteresse royne des colchiens
Subject: Jason; Important Women; Famous Women; Magic; Important Queens; Medea
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Modern day Georgia; Colchis
Description: This illumination depicts Medea on the left side of the image wearing a pink dress and holding a bouquet of flowers or herbs. She was renowned for her skills in magic and potion making. She had fallen in love with the Trojan hero Jason, and she betrayed her family to help him achieve his endeavours. She took her father’s treasure and fled with Jason, and to delay her father from going after them, she dismembered her young brother and scattered his remains for her father to find. Medea is illustrated looking down at her young brother while he is being held down by a man with a sword who is about to dismember him. Jason is illustrated sitting on a horse on the right side of the image. The city of Colchis is depicted on a hill in the background of the illustration.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18431
Language: frm
Source Name: Livre que fist Jehan BOCACE de Certalde des cleres et nobles femmes, lequel il envoia à Audice de Accioroles de Florence, contesse de Haulteville [Book from Giovanni Boccaccio of Certaldo called the cleric and noble women, of which he sent to Audice Accioroles of Florence, Countess of Haulteville]
Parent Collection: 1401 Florence; 1401 Florence
Image: mta_18431_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Jason; Important Women; Famous Women; Magic; Important Queens; Medea

Media: mta_18431_OBJ.jpg