[Sulpicia Following Her Husband into Exile] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Sulpicia Following Her Husband into Exile]
Subject: Sulpicia; Lentulus Cruscellio; Important Women; Famous Women
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Sicily; Italy; Ancient Rome
Description: This image depicts a woman named Sulpicia walking on the left side of the image while a male servant and a maid follow behind her. Sulpicia’s husband, Lentulus Cruscellio, had been proscribed by the triumvirs, and to avoid being proscribed he fled to Sicily to live in exile. Sulpicia left her life behind in the middle of the night with two maids and two male servants to meet her husband in exile. Boccaccio writes on Sulpicia to praise her bravery of leaving her comfortable life to be with her husband.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:25516
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_25516_OBJ.jpg