Cy apres sensuit histoire de faustine auguste · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit histoire de faustine auguste
Subject: Faustina Augusta; Marcus Aurelius; Important Women; Famous Women
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Ancient Rome; Italy
Description: This illumination depicts Faustina Augusta standing on the right side of the image wearing a white, brown, and blue outfit and a crown. She is wearing a crown because she was the wife of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, and was honoured with the title of Augusta, the first woman to have that title. She has three male companions standing with her as she looks at the man sitting at a smithing table. There is a fire beside this man as he forges a weapon on the table in front of him. Faustina was known to be unfaithful to her husband and was in love with a gladiator. The man forging the weapons in the image is presumably the gladiator Faustina fell in love with.
Image Creator: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:25584
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_25584_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Faustina Augusta; Marcus Aurelius; Important Women; Famous Women