Von Irene der römischen keyserin · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Von Irene der römischen keyserin
Subject: Irene; Important Women; Famous Women; Charlemagne
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Byzantium; Rome; Italy
Description: The right side of the engraving depicts Empress Irene of the Eastern Roman Empire sitting on her throne. There is a man kneeling in front of her presenting her with the globus cruciger to demonstrate her authority. The left side of the image depicts the pope crowning Charlemagne as emperor. The pope did not recognize Irene’s rule as she was a woman, which led him to coronate Charlemagne as emperor.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Engraver)
Type: Text; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:25979
Language: ger
Source Name: Hyenach volget der kurcz syn von ettlichen frauen von denen johannes boccacius in latein beschriben hat und doctor heinricus stainhöwel geteütschet [Following the short stories of several women of which Giovanni Boccaccio wrote in Latin, and doctor Heinrich Steinhöwel translated]
Parent Collection: 1473 Augsburg
Image: mta_25979_OBJ.jpg