De Curie femme romaine · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: De Curie femme romaine
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Devotion; Quintus Lucretius; Turia
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Italy; Ancient Rome
Description: This illumination depicts Turia, a Roman woman and wife of Quintus Lucretius, on the right side of the image with her hands together as she expresses a look of despair. After her husband had gotten proscribed, Turia kept her husband safe within their house so that he would not have to go to war. She took care of him and even went so far as to go out in public and pretended to have lost her husband, so that no one would suspect that he was home. This image depicts Turia out in public pretending to be upset while looking for her 'lost' husband. There are other citizens in the image pointing at Turia and appear to be talking about her to one another. Boccaccio explains that he wrote on Turia to highlight her devotion to her husband.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:16724
Language: frm
Source Name: De la louenge et vertu des nobles et cleres dames [Of praise and virtue of the noble and clergy women]
Parent Collection: 1493 Paris; 1493 Paris
Image: mta_16724_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Devotion; Quintus Lucretius; Turia