Cy sensuit histoire de orithie et enthiope royne des amazones femes bateilleresse · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy sensuit histoire de orithie et enthiope royne des amazones femes bateilleresse
Subject: Antiope; Important Women; Famous Women; Important Queens; Amazons; Orithya
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Thermodon; Black Sea; Themiscyra
Description: This image depicts Orithya and Antiope, the queens of the Amazons, riding on their horses while suited in armor. They are depicted not wearing helmets in order to differentiate them from the other Amazon women behind them. The queen in the front is also depicted wearing a crown to symbolize her royal status.
Image Creator: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19836
Language: frm
Source Name: Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation
Parent Collection: 1410 Paris
Image: mta_19836_OBJ.jpg