Cy sensuit de hypsicratee royne de ponte · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy sensuit de hypsicratee royne de ponte
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Anatolia; Modern day Turkey; Pontus
Description: This illumination depicts Hypsicratea, the wife of King Mithridates VI of Pontus, riding horseback on the right side of the image. Mithridates is depicted on the left side of the image, also riding a horse. There are soldiers depicted behind Mithridates and Hypsicratea. Boccaccio explains that Hypsicratea is praiseworthy as she bravely risked her life as she regularly followed her husband on his military expeditions, which is why she is illustrated riding horseback with soldiers surrounding her in this image.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18503
Language: frm
Source Name: Livre que fist Jehan BOCACE de Certalde des cleres et nobles femmes, lequel il envoia à Audice de Accioroles de Florence, contesse de Haulteville [Book from Giovanni Boccaccio of Certaldo called the cleric and noble women, of which he sent to Audice Accioroles of Florence, Countess of Haulteville]
Parent Collection: 1401 Florence; 1401 Florence
Image: mta_18503_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Mithridates VI; Mithridates; Important Women; Famous Women; Important Queens; War; Hypsicratea