Popee Pauline femme de Lucius · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Popee Pauline femme de Lucius
Subject: Pompeia Paulina; Seneca; Emperor Nero; Suicide; Important Women; Famous Women
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Ancient Rome; Italy
Description: This image depicts Pompeia Paulina standing on the right side of the image and her husband Lucius Annaeus Seneca standing on the left side of the image being taken by centurion guards. When Emperor Nero ordered that Seneca was to be put to death, Pompeia Paulina wanted to die with him. Seneca was put into a tub and had his arms cut to bleed out, and Pompeia Paulina got into a tub with him and cut her arms as well. She survived the suicide attempt by slaves who intervened to save her. Boccaccio explains that he wrote on her to praise her devotion to her husband despite the failed suicide attempt.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:25526
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_25526_OBJ.jpg