[Sulpicia Being Chosen as the Most Chaste Woman of Rome] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Sulpicia Being Chosen as the Most Chaste Woman of Rome]
Subject: Sulpicia; Chastity; Venus; Important Women
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Italy; Ancient Rome
Description: This illustration depicts two men of the Roman Senate sitting on the left side of the image. One man is illustrated pointing at the women in front of him, and the other man is depicted holding hands with one of the women. The women illustrated in the image are some of the most chaste women in all of Rome. After a statue to Venus Verticordia was erected, the Senate oversaw choosing one out of several women to consecrate the statue. The woman that they chose was Sulpicia, wife of Fulvius Flaccus and the most chaste woman in Rome. Sulpicia is most likely the woman who is holding hands with one of the Senate as she was the one chosen to consecrate the statue.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:12019
Language: frm
Source Name: De la louenge et vertu des nobles et cleres dames [Of praise and virtue of the noble and clergy women]
Parent Collection: 1493 Paris
Image: mta_12019_OBJ.jpg