Thisbe babilonienne vierge · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Thisbe babilonienne vierge
Subject: Thisbe; Pyramus; Love; Suicide; Important Women; Famous Women
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Babylon; Mesopotamia
Description: This image depicts a woman named Thisbe standing as she reads a book. Thisbe was a young Babylonian woman who fell in love with a man named Pyramus. Their families would not allow them to be together, which resulted in them devising a plan to run away together. The night they were meant to run away together, Pyramus found a blood-stained cloak that had belonged to Thisbe. He thought she had died, and he killed himself as a result. Thisbe was not dead, and her cloak was only blood-stained because a lioness had picked it up in her mouth which had blood on it. Thisbe found Pyramus dead, and she killed herself as well to be with him.
Image Creator: Robinet Testard (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:25175
Language: frm
Source Name: Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme [Boccaccio, The cleric and noble women, anonymous French translation]
Parent Collection: Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme. Illuminations by Robinet Testard (1488-1496)
Image: mta_25175_OBJ.jpg