[Juno Sitting on a Throne Holding a Scepter and Wearing a Crown] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Juno Sitting on a Throne Holding a Scepter and Wearing a Crown]
Subject: Juno; Important Women; Goddesses
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Samos; Ancient Greece
Description: This illustration depicts Juno, queen of the heavens and wife of the god Jupiter, sitting on a throne whilst holding a scepter and wearing a crown to signify her importance. She is looking to a woman on her right who is wearing blue. There are two other women on the right-hand side of the illustration. Boccaccio explains that he believed Juno was a mortal woman, which could be the reason as to why Juno looks like a mortal woman in this depiction. This scene could potentially be set in Samos, the city where Juno was sent to be brought up and raised before getting married to her brother, Jupiter.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:11978
Language: frm
Source Name: De la louenge et vertu des nobles et cleres dames [Of praise and virtue of the noble and clergy women]
Parent Collection: 1493 Paris
Image: mta_11978_OBJ.jpg