Von Veturia · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Von Veturia
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Italy; Ancient Rome
Description: An old noble Roman woman named Veturia is depicted on the right side of the engraving with her daughter-in law and grandchild beside her. We know this figure is Veturia as her name is engraved below her feet. She is illustrated pointing at the man on the left side of the engraving. This man is her son, Coriolanus (his name is engraved above his head). Boccaccio explains that after Coriolanus had been exiled from Rome for neglecting the plebian class, he planned an attack on Rome. Veturia, with the help of her daughter-in-law (Volumnia) and grandchild, went to speak with Coriolanus at his camp and convinced him to not go through with the attack. Boccaccio explains that he decided to write on Veturia for her honour as a mother and a woman.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Engraver)
Type: Text; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:18041
Language: ger
Source Name: Hyenach volget der kurcz syn von ettlichen frauen von denen johannes boccacius in latein beschriben hat und doctor heinricus stainhöwel geteütschet [Following the short stories of several women of which Giovanni Boccaccio wrote in Latin, and doctor Heinrich Steinhöwel translated]
Parent Collection: 1473 Augsburg; 1473 Augsburg
Image: mta_18041_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Roman Matrons; Veturia