[Agrippina Riding in a Chariot] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Agrippina Riding in a Chariot]
Subject: Agrippina the Younger; Emperor Nero; Emperor Claudius; Important Women; Famous Women
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Ancient Rome; Italy
Description: This image depicts Agrippina the Younger, the mother of Emperor Nero and wife of Emperor Claudius. She is riding a chariot in this image because, once she became wife of the emperor and titled Augusta, she rode this chariot to the Capitol, which was a tradition that only priests were able to do. Depicting Agrippina in the chariot demonstrates her power and influence in the empire.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:25524
Language: frm
Source Name: De la louenge et vertu des nobles et cleres dames [Of praise and virtue of the noble and clergy women]
Parent Collection: 1493 Paris; 1493 Paris
Image: mta_25524_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Agrippina the Younger; Emperor Nero; Emperor Claudius; Important Women; Famous Women