Cy apres sensuit hystoire de yrene femme de cratini · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit hystoire de yrene femme de cratini
Subject: Painting; Important Women; Famous Women; Irene
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Ancient Greece
Description: This illumination depicts a woman named Irene painting a sculpture that she created of a woman holding a child. Irene was a renowned, skillful painter during her time which Boccaccio believed to deserve praise as the arts were not a common practice of women. Boccaccio explains that Irene was the daughter of a man named Cratinus, who was also a painter (although much less renown).
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19988
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_19988_OBJ.jpg