Cy apres sensuit de arthemese royne de care · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit de arthemese royne de care
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Important Queens; Military; War; Artemisia
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Halicarnassus; Modern day Turkey; Caria
Description: This illumination depicts Artemisia, the queen of Caria, standing in the centre of the image holding a sword as she looks down at dead bodies on the ground. She has soldiers dressed in armor standing behind her. Boccaccio explains that Artemisia was renowned for her military leadership as she had taken up arms against enemies multiple times.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19986
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_19986_OBJ.jpg