[Artemisia Overseeing the Construction of her Husband’s Sepulchre] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Artemisia Overseeing the Construction of her Husband’s Sepulchre]
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Caria; Modern day Turkey; Halicarnassus
Description: This illustration depicts Artemisia, the queen of Caria, on the right side of the image wearing a crown and holding out her arm towards the monument in front of her. The crown she is wearing is to signify her royal status. There are two men standing behind the monument with chisels and other tools as they construct a sepulcher for Artemisia’s husband. Artemisia was married to Mausolus, the king of Caria and was so grieved by his death that she ordered a magnificent sepulcher to be erected in his honour.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:12008
Language: frm
Source Name: De la louenge et vertu des nobles et cleres dames [Of praise and virtue of the noble and clergy women]
Parent Collection: 1493 Paris; 1493 Paris
Image: mta_12008_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Important Queens; Artemisia; Mausoleums; Sepulchers; Important Women