Cy apres sensuit hystoire de hecube la royne des troiens · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit hystoire de hecube la royne des troiens
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Asia Minor; Troy
Description: This illumination depicts Hecuba, the queen of Troy and wife of king Priam of Troy, in the centre of the image. Boccaccio explains that he wrote on Hecuba to highlight her terrible misfortunes. She had watched many of her children die, including the hero Hector, and watched her husband be disemboweled. Along with watching her loved ones violently die, she watched her entire city fall to the ground. Many believe she had become a slave to the Greeks once the city was taken. She is illustrated watching her loved ones die in this illustration. The city of Troy is burning in the background on the left side.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18446
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_18446_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Hector; Priam; Important Women; Famous Women; The Trojan War; Important Queens; Hecuba