Tres belle Venus a sut tres amene royne des cypriens · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Tres belle Venus a sut tres amene royne des cypriens
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Cyprus; Ancient Greece
Description: This illuminated image depicts the goddess Venus. Boccaccio explains that Venus was most likely a woman of Cyprus, and he wrote on her due to her incomparable beauty. Venus is depicted holding a part of her dress in her right hand and holding an object in her left. Venus has many symbols that she is associated with, and the object she is holding is assumed to be one of them (perhaps a pearl or a scallop shell).
Image Creator: Robinet Testard (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:17128
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_17128_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Important Women; Goddesses; Venus; Famous Women