Cy apres sensuit histoire de la tres belle yolle fille du roi des etholiens · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit histoire de la tres belle yolle fille du roi des etholiens
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Ancient Greece; Aetolia
Description: This illumination depicts Hercules weaving with his wife Iole. Hercules is depicted wearing a brown cloak made from the skin of the Nemean lion. There are two women sitting with Iole and Hercules who are listening to Hercules tell the tales of his labours. Iole is making Hercules weave to strip him of his pride as revenge for killing her father.
Image Creator: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19839
Language: frm
Source Name: Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation
Parent Collection: 1410 Paris; 1410 Paris
Image: mta_19839_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Hercules; Important Women; Famous Women; Important Queens; Vengeance; Iole