Lavinie royne des laurentums · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Lavinie royne des laurentums
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Laurentum; Italy
Description: This illumination depicts Lavinia, queen of Laurentum. Lavinia married the famous hero, Aeneas of Troy, after her father heard from an oracle that she should marry a foreign man. Boccaccio explains that Aeneas died shortly after Lavinia gave birth to their first child, Postumus.
Image Creator: Robinet Testard (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:17733
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_17733_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Important Queens; Lavinia; Aeneas; Important Women; Famous Women