Cy sensuit histoire de hecube royne des troiens · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy sensuit histoire de hecube royne des troiens
Subject: Priam; The Trojan War; Important Women; Famous Women; Important Queens; Hecuba
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Asia Minor; Ancient Greece; Troy
Description: This illumination depicts Hecuba, the queen of Troy, on the left side of the image watching her husband and children die at the hands of the Greeks. Boccaccio explains that he wrote on Hecuba to highlight her terrible misfortunes. Her husband, King Priam, is illustrated laying on the ground with wounds on his chest. He is depicted wearing a crown to identify him. One of Hecuba’s daughters is depicted sitting beside her brother’s and father’s dead bodies as she looked at the Greek soldiers behind her. Along with watching her loved ones violently die, Hecuba watched her entire city fall to the ground. The city of Troy is depicted in the background on the right side of the image.
Image Creator: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19920
Language: frm
Source Name: Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation
Parent Collection: 1410 Paris
Image: mta_19920_OBJ.jpg