Agrippine tuée sur ordre de Néron · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Agrippine tuée sur ordre de Néron
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Lucrine Lake
Description: After threatening to make Nero lose his empire, Nero plotted his mother’s death. Agrippina knew he was up to something, but Nero continued planning. He finally had three men sent to kill Agripinna. They killed her by hitting her over the head and then stabbing her in the womb. This is represented in the image with one man, on the far left, looking at Agrippina, the man behind her with a bat raised to strike her, and the man on her other side also ready to strike her with a bat. She stands in the center, prepared for certain death.
Image Creator: Master of the Cleres Femmes of the Duke of Berry (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:20247
Language: fre
Source Name: Livre des Femmes Nobles et Renommées
Parent Collection: 1403 Paris; 1403 Paris
Image: mta_20247_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Murder; Incest; Nero; Womb; Agrippina