Cy sensuit histoire de la tres noble deyanire la femme de hercules · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy sensuit histoire de la tres noble deyanire la femme de hercules
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Evenus River; Aetolia; Ancient Greece; Calydon
Description: Hercules is illustrated on the right side of the image with a bow and arrow in his hand. He is pointing his arrow at Nessus, who is riding a horse through a river on the left side of the image. Hercules was with his wife Deianira when they came across the flooded river depicted in the image. Nessus came along and offered to take Deianira safely across the river on his horse. Nessus is illustrated looking at Hercules while holding a riding crop in his left hand. Nessus betrayed Hercules’ trust and began to run away with Deianira after crossing the river. Hercules uses a poison infused arrow to shoot Nessus and rescue his wife.
Image Creator: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19852
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_19852_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Hercules; Roman Mythology; Nessus; Deianira