Cy apres sensuit hystoire de cletemestre royne de micene · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit hystoire de cletemestre royne de micene
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Ancient Greece; Mycenae
Description: Queen Clytemnestra of Mycenae is depicted on the right side of the illumination wearing a crown and a blue dress. The man she has been having an affair with, Aegisthus, is depicted holding a sword beside her. Aegisthus and Clytemnestra conjured a plan to kill Clytemnestra’s husband, King Agamemnon, in order to gain control of Mycenae. Clytemnestra gave Agamemnon a piece of clothing that had no neck hole. He is depicted putting his head into the garment. As he struggled with the clothing, the adulterer Aegisthus pierced Agamemnon with a sword. Orestes, the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, sought to avenge his father’s death. He is depicted on the left side of the image swinging a sword towards Aegisthus.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18448
Language: frm
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_18448_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Aegisthus; Agamemnon; Important Women; Important Queens; Famous Women; Orestes; Infidelity; Greek Mythology; Clytemnestra

Media: mta_18448_OBJ.jpg