De Artemesia: reyna de Caria: mujer del rey Mausolo · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: De Artemesia: reyna de Caria: mujer del rey Mausolo
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Anatolia; Halicarnassus; Caria
Description: Artemisia was married to Mausolus, the king of Caria. Boccaccio explains that when he died, Artemisia was so grieved by his death that, instead of putting his ashes in an urn after his cremation, she drank the ashes in order to be closer to him. The left side of the engraving depicts Artemisia cremating her husband’s body in a fire. Mausolus head is visible in the fire. Artemisia is illustrated scooping her husband’s ashes and putting them into a bag. The right side of the engraving depicts Artemisia drinking her husband’s ashes.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Engraver)
Type: Text; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:16677
Language: spa
Source Name: De Las Mujeres Ilustres [On Famous Women]
Parent Collection: 1494 Mujeres Ilustres; 1494 Mujeres Ilustres
Image: mta_16677_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Famous Women; Important Queens; Artemisia; Devotion; Cremation; Important Women