Clitemnestre royne des mycenes en grece · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Clitemnestre royne des mycenes en grece
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Mycenae; Ancient Greece; Asia Minor; Troy
Description: This illumination depicts a portrait of a woman named Clytaemnestra (or Clytemnestra), who was the queen of Mycenae and wife to king Agamemnon. Clytaemnestra had begun an affair with a man named Aegisthus while Agamemnon was in the Trojan War and had planned to take control of Mycenae together. They murdered Agamemnon as soon as he returned to Greece, Clytaemnestra and Aegisthus end up being murdered by her son, Orestes, to avenge his father.
Image Creator: Robinet Testard (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:17154
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_17154_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Aegisthus; Agamemnon; The Trojan War; Important Women; Famous Women; Important Queens; Clytemnestra; Clytaemnestra