Thisbé se tue sur le corps de Pyrame ; la lionne est cachée dans les arbres · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Thisbé se tue sur le corps de Pyrame ; la lionne est cachée dans les arbres
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Babylon
Description: Thisbe, wearing the blue gown, throws herself onto her lover’s sword. Her lover in the red robe, Pyramus, lies on the ground dead after thinking he found evidence of Thisbe’s death. In the background, a lioness hides in the trees – the lioness is to blame for both deaths. She wiped her bloody mouth on Thisbe’s cloak, which Pyramus found and lead him to believe that Thisbe had been eaten. He killed himself out of heartbreak, which lead to Thisbe finding his body, and killing herself, too.
Image Creator: Master of the Cleres Femmes of the Duke of Berry (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19808
Language: fre
Source Name: Livre des Femmes Nobles et Renommées
Parent Collection: 1403 Paris; 1403 Paris
Image: mta_19808_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Heartbreak; Lioness; Swords; Suicide