Cy apres sensuit hystoire de la tres belle venus femme cyprenne · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit hystoire de la tres belle venus femme cyprenne
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Ancient Greece; Cyprus
Description: This illumination depicts the goddess Venus standing in the centre of the image, wearing a blue dress and holding her right hand up. Venus was renowned for her beauty, as well as for her discovery of brothels. There are people depicted surrounding Venus as they admire her incomparable beauty.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18422
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_18422_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Roman Mythology; Important Women; Famous Women; Brothels; Beauty; Goddesses; Venus