Cy apres sensuit de agrippine de nouron cesar mere · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit de agrippine de nouron cesar mere
Subject: Emperor Nero; Agrippina the Younger; Important Women; Famous Women; Important Queens; Noble Women; Agrippina
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Italy; Ancient Rome
Description: This illumination depicts Agrippina, the mother of Emperor Nero, standing in the centre of the image about to be beaten to death. There are two men on the left side of the image who are swinging clubs above their heads as they were instructed by Emperor Nero to kill his mother. Emperor Nero is illustrated on the right side of the image.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18524
Language: frm
Source Name: Livre que fist Jehan BOCACE de Certalde des cleres et nobles femmes, lequel il envoia à Audice de Accioroles de Florence, contesse de Haulteville [Book from Giovanni Boccaccio of Certaldo called the cleric and noble women, of which he sent to Audice Accioroles of Florence, Countess of Haulteville]
Parent Collection: 1401 Florence
Image: mta_18524_OBJ.jpg