[Claudia Quinta Retrieves the Statue of Ceres from a Ship] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Claudia Quinta Retrieves the Statue of Ceres from a Ship]
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Italy; Ancient Rome
Description: This illustration depicts Claudia Quinta, a Roman matron, standing on a plank as she retrieves a statue of the goddess Ceres from a ship. Boccaccio explains that after Claudia Quinta was accused by other citizens of not being chaste, she prayed to the goddess to help prove her virtue. After a ship that contained a statue of Ceres had gotten stuck on a sandbar, Ceres gave Claudia Quinta the power to pull the ship to shore as proof of her chastity. Therefore, she is being depicted on the ship retrieving the statue.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:12027
Language: frm
Source Name: De la louenge et vertu des nobles et cleres dames [Of praise and virtue of the noble and clergy women]
Parent Collection: 1493 Paris; 1493 Paris
Image: mta_12027_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Claudia Quinta; Roman Matrons; Chastity; Important Women