Cy apres sensuit de sabie pompee femme de nouron · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit de sabie pompee femme de nouron
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Italy; Ancient Rome
Description: This illumination depicts Sabina Poppaea, the wife of Emperor Nero, lying dead in a chariot as she is carried to her funeral. Despite Roman traditions of cremation, Emperor Nero had a public burial for his wife and had her body placed in a sepulcher. Boccaccio explains that Emperor Nero had gotten angry and kicked Sabina in the stomach while she was pregnant, which was the cause of her untimely death. She is illustrated wearing a pink dress and a crown in this illustration.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18568
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_18568_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Emperor Nero; Important Women; Famous Women; Noble Women; Sabina Poppaea