Triarre femme de lucien vittelien · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Triarre femme de lucien vittelien
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Italy; Terracina
Description: This illumination depicts a portrait of a woman named Triaria wearing armour and holding a shield in her left hand. Triaria is renowned for her military skills and devotion to her husband, Lucius Vitellius. She is depicted wearing armour in this image to demonstrate her fighting capabilities. Boccaccio explains that Triaria followed her husband into an enemy city and she fought violently and killed many citizens in order to magnify her husband’s glory.
Image Creator: Robinet Testard (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18103
Language: frm
Source Name: Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme [Boccaccio, The cleric and noble women, anonymous French translation]
Parent Collection: Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme. Illuminations by Robinet Testard (1488-1496); Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme. Illuminations by Robinet Testard (1488-1496)
Image: mta_18103_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Famous Women; Noble Women; Triaria; Lucius Vitellius; War; Devotion; Important Women