Cy apres sensuit histoire de la tres belle europe royne des crethensiens · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit histoire de la tres belle europe royne des crethensiens
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Phoenicia; Crete; Ancient Greece
Description: This image illustrates the beautiful Europa being kidnapped and placed on a ship. Europa is depicted in the centre of the image wearing a blue dress and a crown on her head. Boccaccio explains that Europa was convinced by a panderer to follow him to the shores of Phoenicia, where she was then kidnapped and put onto a ship and taken to Crete. There is a man standing in front of Europa, presumed to be either Jupiter or the panderer. There is a woman standing beside Europa, who is not mentioned in Boccaccio’s telling of this story.
Image Creator: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19818
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_19818_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Jupiter; Gods; Important Queens; Abduction; Europa; Important Women; Famous Women