Julie se pâme à la vue des vêtements tâchés de sang de son mari · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Julie se pâme à la vue des vêtements tâchés de sang de son mari
Subject: Julia; Pompey; Love; Suicide; Blood; Grief
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Rome
Description: While performing a sacrifice to a bloodied and thrashing animal, Pompey was covered in the animal’s blood. He sent his bloodied clothes home so he could put on clean clothes, but nobody told his wife Julia that the blood was not his. When she saw his bloodied clothes, she assumed he had died. She is depicted in a blue gown on the left of the image, looking at Pompey’s bloodied clothes which are carried by a servant.
Image Creator: Master of the Cleres Femmes of the Duke of Berry (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:20212
Language: fre
Source Name: Livre des Femmes Nobles et Renommées
Parent Collection: 1403 Paris; 1403 Paris
Image: mta_20212_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Julia; Pompey; Love; Suicide; Blood; Grief