De Medee Royne Des Colchiens · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: De Medee Royne Des Colchiens
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Colchis
Description: Medea, Queen of Colchis, wears a blue gown on the left of the image. She looks downward as her little brother is dismembered – an order that she gave. She made the order to have her young brother dismembered and body parts scattered throughout a field as a distraction so that she could get an advance while fleeing from her father. Her little brother is in a yellow robe in the bottom left corner of the image. The man with the horses is who was tasked with the duty of dismembering the child.
Image Creator: Master of the Cleres Femmes of the Duke of Berry (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19820
Language: fre
Source Name: Livre des Femmes Nobles et Renommées
Parent Collection: 1403 Paris; 1403 Paris
Image: mta_19820_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Escape; Elope; Dismembering; Medea; Murder