La tres honorable Supplice de Fulvius Flaccus feme · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: La tres honorable Supplice de Fulvius Flaccus feme
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Italy; Ancient Rome
Description: This illumination depicts a portrait of a woman named Sulpicia. Sulpicia is renowned for having been a devoutly chaste woman. Boccaccio explains that Sulpicia was chosen out of one hundred women to consecrate a statue to Venus in the city of Rome. She was chosen for being considered the most chaste out of all the other women.
Image Creator: Robinet Testard (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18077
Language: frm
Source Name: Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme [Boccaccio, The cleric and noble women, anonymous French translation]
Parent Collection: Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme. Illuminations by Robinet Testard (1488-1496); Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme. Illuminations by Robinet Testard (1488-1496)
Image: mta_18077_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Fulvius Flaccus; Important Women; Famous Women; Chastity; Venus; Goddesses; Sulpicia