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

Title: Cy apres sensuit hystoire de Meduse fille du roy phorce
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Roman Mythology; Greek Mythology; Medusa; Perseus
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Hesperides; Atlantic Ocean
Description: Medusa is illustrated on the left side of the image sitting by the shore as a ship approaches the land. Medusa is depicted in her human form in this image before Minerva transformed her into a monster. Boccaccio explains that Minerva transforms Medusa into a monster because she was angry that she had sexual relations with Neptune inside one of her temples. The hero Perseus is depicted riding his Pegasus on the right side of the illustration in the ship as he is on his way to conquer Medusa’s kingdom.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18434
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_18434_OBJ.jpg