Supplice feme de cruselien · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Supplice feme de cruselien
Subject: Lentulus Cruscellio; Important Women; Famous Women; Noble Women; War; Exile; Sulpicia
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Italy; Sicily; Ancient Rome
Description: This illumination depicts a woman named Sulpicia leaving her home to find her exiled husband. Her husband, Lentulus Cruscellio, had evaded proscription and fled to Sicily to live in exile. Sulpicia was incredibly devoted to her husband and left the comfort of home to follow him into exile. There are two other women in the image, one of them being Sulpicia’s mother, Julia. Julia is illustrated grabbing her daughter’s arm to stop her from leaving. Sulpicia is depicted with a walking stick as she carries her belongings in her right arm.
Image Creator: Robinet Testard (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18093
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)
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