Cy apres sensuit histoire de turie de quint lucrecien femme · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit histoire de turie de quint lucrecien femme
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Italy; Ancient Rome
Description: This illumination depicts Turia, a Roman woman and wife of Quintus Lucretius, in the centre of the image with her hands together as she expresses a look of despair. After her husband had gotten proscribed, Turia kept her husband safe within their house so that he would not have to go to war. She took care of him and went in public and pretended to have lost her husband so that no one would suspect that he was home. This image depicts Turia out in public pretending to be upset while looking for her 'lost' husband. There are other citizens in the image pointing and looking at Turia. Boccaccio explains that he wrote on Turia to highlight her devotion to her husband.
Image Creator: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:20081
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_20081_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Devotion; Quintus Hortensius; War; Turia