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Title: De Cerres Déesse
Subject: Harvest; Ceres; Goddesses; Agriculture
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Southern Italy; Sicily
Description: Ceres, queen of Sicily and goddess of the harvest, is pictured at the top of the image in a blue gown, sitting in a field. Farm workers surround her. They are praying and yoking oxen to plow the fields. Queen Ceres is responsible for being the first to tame and train oxen to pull plows.
Image Creator: Master of the Cleres Femmes of the Duke of Berry (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19798
Language: fre
Source Name: Livre des Femmes Nobles et Renommées
Parent Collection: 1403 Paris; 1403 Paris
Image: mta_19798_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Harvest; Ceres; Goddesses; Agriculture