Jocaste royne de Thebeyens · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Jocaste royne de Thebeyens
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Thebes; Ancient Greece
Description: This illumination depicts a portrait of Queen Jocasta of Thebes. Boccaccio explains that Jocasta is widely renown for unknowingly marrying her son, Oedipus. After an oracle revealed the truth about her husband being her son, Oedipus gouged his eyes out and Jocasta killed herself.
Image Creator: Robinet Testard (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:17143
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_17143_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Important Queens; Jocasta; Oedipus; Oracles; Prophecies; Important Women; Famous Women