Cy sensuit histoire de Meduse fille du roy phorce · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy sensuit histoire de Meduse fille du roy phorce
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Roman Mythology; Greek Mythology; Perseus; Medusa
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Atlantic Ocean; Hesperides
Description: This illumination depicts Medusa sitting on a ship. She is depicted wearing a crown because she is the daughter of King Phorcys. There is a depiction of Perseus riding a Pegasus on the red emblem on the right side of the ship.
Image Creator: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19838
Language: frm
Source Name: Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation
Parent Collection: 1410 Paris
Image: mta_19838_OBJ.jpg