Sabine Pompee feme de neron cesar · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Sabine Pompee feme de neron cesar
Subject: Poppaea Sabina; Emperor Nero; Important Women; Famous Women
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Ancient Rome; Italy
Description: This image depicts Poppaea Sabina, the wife of Emperor Nero being burned alive. There is a man on the left side of the image tying her up while the man on the right pokes at the fire. This image is not reflective of the genuine story of Poppaea Sabina in the way that Boccaccio describes it. Boccaccio describes that Poppaea died by getting kicked in the abdomen while pregnant by Emperor Nero in a fit of rage.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:25529
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_25529_OBJ.jpg