Claudia Quinta défend son père dans son char de triomphe · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Claudia Quinta défend son père dans son char de triomphe
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Rome
Description: While being charioted around in front of a crowd, Claudia’s father, who was deceased, was attacked by a group of plebeians. Seeing this in horror, Claudia rushed into the group of men and defended her father. Her love for him was too strong to see him in this position, so she defended him. Claudia is seen in the blue gown trying to defend her father, who in lying in the back of a chariot being attacked by a plebeian. The chariot driver is at the top right corner of the image, on horseback.
Image Creator: Master of the Cleres Femmes of the Duke of Berry (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:20190
Language: fre
Source Name: Livre des Femmes Nobles et Renommées
Parent Collection: 1403 Paris; 1403 Paris
Image: mta_20190_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Triumph; Equine; Battle; Claudia; Chariot