Cy sensuit hystoire de la tres belle venus qui su tres ancienne royne des cipriens · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy sensuit hystoire de la tres belle venus qui su tres ancienne royne des cipriens
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Ancient Greece; Cyprus
Description: This illumination depicts the goddess Venus standing in the centre of the image, wearing a blue and pink dress. Venus was renowned for her beauty, as well as for her discovery of brothels. There are people depicted surrounding Venus as they admire her incomparable beauty. There is a religious looking man on the left side of the image kneeling and swinging a censer to honour the goddess.
Image Creator: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19816
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_19816_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Goddesses; Roman Mythology; Important Women; Famous Women; Beauty; Venus