Cy sensuit histoire de claudie quinte feme romanie · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy sensuit histoire de claudie quinte feme romanie
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Ancient Rome; Italy
Description: This illumination depicts Claudia Quinta, a Roman woman, standing on land as she pulls a ship to shore. Boccaccio explains that after Claudia Quinta was accused by other matrons of not being chaste, she prayed to the goddess Ceres to help prove her virtue. After a ship that contained a statue of Ceres had gotten stuck on a sandbar, Ceres gave Claudia Quinta the power to pull the ship to shore as proof of her chastity. The women who accused Claudia Quinta of being unchaste are standing to the left of her in the image as they watch her pull the ship to shore. The statue of the goddess is illustrated on the ship.
Image Creator: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:20075
Language: frm
Source Name: Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation
Parent Collection: 1410 Paris; 1410 Paris
Image: mta_20075_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Famous Women; Chastity; Virtue; Goddesses; Claudia Quinta; Important Women