Cy apres sensuit de turie de quint lucrecien femme · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit de turie de quint lucrecien femme
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Ancient Rome; Italy
Description: This illumination depicts Turia (also known as Curia), a Roman woman and wife of Quintus Lucretius, in the centre of the image wearing a blue dress as she hunches over. After her husband had gotten proscribed, Turia kept her husband safe within their house so that he would not have to go to war. She took care of him and went in public and pretended to have lost her husband so that no one would suspect that he was home. This image depicts Turia out in public pretending to be upset while looking for her 'lost' husband. There are other citizens in the image looking at Turia. Boccaccio explains that he wrote on Turia to highlight her devotion to her husband.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:25649
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_25649_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Turia; Curia; Quintus Lucretius; Important Women; Famous Women; Devotion