Faustine Auguste · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Faustine Auguste
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Italy; Ancient Rome
Description: This illumination depicts a portrait of Faustina Augusta, the wife of Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, looking into a mirror and admiring her beauty. Faustina Augusta was renowned for her beauty and had her portrait engraved onto bronze, copper and silver coins. She was, according to Boccaccio, the first woman called Augusta by order of the senate. She is also famous for having been unfaithful to her husband as she had many affairs, including one with a gladiator.
Image Creator: Robinet Testard (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18105
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_18105_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus; Important Women; Famous Women; Noble Women; Infidelity; Emperors; Faustina Augusta