Marpésie et Lampédo, reines des Amazones · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Marpésie et Lampédo, reines des Amazones
Subject: Battle; Queens; Amazons
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Themiscyra; Thermodon
Description: Queens Maresia and Lampedo are in the center of the image wearing a red gown and blue gown, and crowns. They were the elected queens that ruled the Amazons together, after the men were killed, with great success. Other Amazon women stand around the two queens, admiring them.
Image Creator: Master of the Cleres Femmes of the Duke of Berry (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19807
Language: fre
Source Name: Livre des Femmes Nobles et Renommées
Parent Collection: 1403 Paris
Image: mta_19807_OBJ.png