Cy apres sensuit hystoire de beronice royne de capadoce · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit hystoire de beronice royne de capadoce
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Important Queens; Revenge; Caeneus; Mithridates; Berenice
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Modern day Turkey; Cappadocia
Description: Berenice, the queen of Cappadocia, is illustrated in the centre of the image standing in a chariot. She is depicted with an axe in her left hand and a rock in her right. Her arm is in the air as she is about to throw the rock at the man on the right side of the image who is running away from her. The man running away from Berenice is Caenus, a servant who killed Berenice’s children under the order of Mithridates (her brother). Berenice kills this servant to avenge her children’s deaths. There is a chariot driver who is depicted riding the horse.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18496
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_18496_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Important Queens; Revenge; Caeneus; Mithridates; Berenice