Cy sensuit histoire de yrene fille de cratin · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy sensuit histoire de yrene fille de cratin
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Ancient Greece
Description: This illumination depicts a woman named Irene painting a figure of a child on the wall in front of her. There is a table beside her with her painting tools laying on top. Irene was a renowned, skillful painter during her time which Boccaccio believed to deserve praise as the arts were not a common practice of women. Boccaccio explains that Irene was the daughter of a man named Cratinus, who was also a painter (although much less renown).
Image Creator: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:20044
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_20044_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Painting; Famous Women; Important Women; Irene; Cratinus