Von Ypermestra der künigin in kriechen lande und Junonis der göttin priester · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Von Ypermestra der künigin in kriechen lande und Junonis der göttin priester
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Ancient Greece; Argos; The Argives
Description: Hypermnestra and her husband, Linus, are illustrated on the edge of the bed on the left side of the engraving. We know these figures are Hypermnestra and Linus as their names are engraved above their heads. Hypermnestra is depicted with her arm lovingly touching Linus’ chest. As Boccaccio explains, a prophecy told Hypermnestra’s father that one of his nephews would kill him, so he married all his daughters to his nephews and instructed them to kill their new grooms to avoid this prophecy from happening. Hypermnestra, however, fell in love with her cousin Linus. Hypermnestra instructs him to leave to avoid her father and sisters from killing him. One of her sisters is depicted lying in the bed behind her, already having killed her husband, along with the other husbands that have been murdered.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Engraver)
Type: Text; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:17968
Language: ger
Source Name: Hyenach volget der kurcz syn von ettlichen frauen von denen johannes boccacius in latein beschriben hat und doctor heinricus stainhöwel geteütschet [Following the short stories of several women of which Giovanni Boccaccio wrote in Latin, and doctor Heinrich Steinhöwel translated]
Parent Collection: 1473 Augsburg; 1473 Augsburg
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Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Linus; Hypermnestra; Murder

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