Cy apres sensuit de la tres honorable supplice · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit de la tres honorable supplice
Subject: Chastity; Venus; Goddesses; Statues; Consecration; Important Women; Famous Women; Sulpicia
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Italy; Ancient Rome
Description: This illumination depicts a woman named Sulpicia standing in the centre of the image inside of a temple. Sulpicia is renowned for having been a devoutly chaste woman. Boccaccio explains that Sulpicia was chosen out of one hundred women to consecrate a statue to Venus in the city of Rome. She was chosen for being considered the most chaste out of all the other women. The other chaste women are depicted standing behind Sulpicia.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: StillImage; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18491
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_18491_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Chastity; Venus; Goddesses; Statues; Consecration; Important Women; Famous Women; Sulpicia