Gaia Cirilla, la femme de Tarquin l’Ancien, et le travail de la laine : teinture, cardage, tissage, filage · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Gaia Cirilla, la femme de Tarquin l’Ancien, et le travail de la laine : teinture, cardage, tissage, filage
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Rome or Etruria
Description: Gaia Cyrilla is seen in a red dress as the back of an image. She is wearing a crown and working with wool, which was an art she dedicated herself to. Two women work with her at different stages of the wool-working process. They work on the dyeing, carding, weaving and spinning of the wool. She was so talented that she was loved by the public, creating a lasting fame.
Image Creator: Master of the Cleres Femmes of the Duke of Berry (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:20026
Language: fre
Source Name: Livre des Femmes Nobles et Renommées
Parent Collection: 1403 Paris; 1403 Paris
Image: mta_20026_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Weaving; Spinning; Fame; Carding; Wool-working