Cy apres sensuit histoire de dripetrue de laodoce royne et du grand mitridace fille · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit histoire de dripetrue de laodoce royne et du grand mitridace fille
Subject: Important Women; Important Queens; Mithridates the Great; Filial Devotion; Dripetrua; Famous Women
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Turkey; Pontus; Anatolia
Description: This illumination depicts a Dripetrua at a dinner table with her father, King Mithridates of Pontus. They are both depicted wearing crowns. Boccaccio explains that Dripetrua was born with two sets of teeth and was incredibly hideous, however, she was also very devoted to her father, which deserved praise.
Image Creator: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:20073
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_20073_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Important Women; Important Queens; Mithridates the Great; Filial Devotion; Dripetrua; Famous Women