Cy apres sensuit hystoire de cassandre fille de priame roy des troyens · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit hystoire de cassandre fille de priame roy des troyens
Subject: Priam; Agamemnon; The Trojan War; Important Women; Famous Women; Apollo; Gods; Cassandra
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Asia Minor; Mycenae; Ancient Greece; Troy
Description: This illumination depicts Cassandra, the daughter of King Priam of Troy, standing in the centre of the image holding a book. She is showing this book to King Agamemnon, who is standing on the left side of the image. Cassandra had the gift of foresight and predicted the events of the Trojan War and the downfall of her city. She predicted the death of Agamemnon, as well as her own. Boccaccio explains that the god Apollo had given Cassandra the gift of foresight in exchange for her love, and when she denied him what she had promised, he made it so that no one would believe any prediction she made. Cassandra appears to be desperate in this illustration as she tries to tell Agamemnon her predictions, however he does not understand her prophecies. There is a man with a sword behind Cassandra which foreshadows her death.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18447
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_18447_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Priam; Agamemnon; The Trojan War; Important Women; Famous Women; Apollo; Gods; Cassandra

Media: mta_18447_OBJ.jpg