[Metabus Throwing His Daughter Camilla Over a River] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Metabus Throwing His Daughter Camilla Over a River]
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Italy; Latium
Description: After being banished from his own kingdom, King Metabus of the Volscians fled into exile. Metabus is illustrated in the foreground of the image kneeling on the ground with his hands together in prayer. He is looking up at a statue which is standing on a tall platform. The statue is in the shape of the goddess Diana. Metabus is asking Diana for her help to save his young child, Camilla, from the river which flows behind him. The background of the image depicts Metabus throwing his child, Camilla, across the river after wrapping her in tree bark and tying her to his lance. With the help and protection of Diana, Camilla makes it safely across the river while tied to the lance. Metabus ends up swimming across the river after Camilla is thrown, to which he finds out that the made it safely across.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:11993
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_11993_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Important Women; Diana; Goddesses; Metabus; Exile; Roman Mythology; Camilla