Hecube royne de troie la grand · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Hecube royne de troie la grand
Subject: Hector; The Trojan War; Important Women; Famous Women; Important Queens; Hecuba; Priam
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Troy; Asia Minor
Description: This illumination depicts a portrait of a woman named Hecuba, the queen of Troy and wife of king Priam of Troy. Boccaccio explains that he wrote on Hecuba to highlight her terrible misfortunes. She had watched many of her children die, including the hero Hector, and watched her husband be disemboweled. Along with watching her loved ones violently die, she watched her entire city fall to the ground. Many believe she had become a slave to the Greeks once the city was taken.
Image Creator: Robinet Testard (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:17152
Language: frm
Source Name: Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme [Boccaccio, The cleric and noble women, anonymous French translation]
Parent Collection: Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme. Illuminations by Robinet Testard (1488-1496)
Image: mta_17152_OBJ.jpg