La femme d’Orgiagonte offre à son mari la tête de celui qui l’a déshonorée · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: La femme d’Orgiagonte offre à son mari la tête de celui qui l’a déshonorée
Subject: Beheading; Lust; Rape; Shame; Murder; Decapitation
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Saluzzo
Description: While being held captive, the centurion guarding Drigiagon’s wife desired her. She hated him so much that once her ransom was paid and she was freed, she ordered to have his head cut off. Once she had the head, she returned to her husband, and dropped the head before his feet. The head was a symbol of her shame from the acts of the centurion. The image represents Drigiagon in his throne while his wife holds the head of the centurion out to him. In front of them lie the bodies of two other beheaded men.
Image Creator: Master of the Cleres Femmes of the Duke of Berry (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:20202
Language: fre
Source Name: Livre des Femmes Nobles et Renommées
Parent Collection: 1403 Paris
Image: mta_20202_OBJ.png