Sénèque frappé dans son bain ; sa femme Pompeia Paulina veut subir le même sort · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Sénèque frappé dans son bain ; sa femme Pompeia Paulina veut subir le même sort
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Rome
Description: When Seneca was ordered to die by Nero, Pompeia Paulina wanted to die with him because her love for him was so dear. To die in the same way, she got into the same warm bath tub as Seneca, and cut open her veins so that she could bleed out too. Her slaves saved her when they entered the room and found her bleeding. In the image, Seneca and Pompeia Paulina are both in the bath tub. He is on the left, bleeding and dying as his arm is cut by a man, while she is on the right being pulled out of the bath tub by her slaves.
Image Creator: Master of the Cleres Femmes of the Duke of Berry (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:20249
Language: fre
Source Name: Livre des Femmes Nobles et Renommées
Parent Collection: 1403 Paris; 1403 Paris
Image: mta_20249_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Murder; Suicide; Widow; Love; Loyalty; Pompeia Paulina; Seneca