Yrene fille de cratini · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Yrene fille de cratini
Subject: Painting; Important Women; Famous Women; Irene
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Ancient Greece
Description: This illumination depicts a woman named Irene painting a portrait of a woman on a wall. Irene was a renowned, skillful painter during her time which Boccaccio believed to deserve praise as the arts were not a common practice of women. Boccaccio explains that Irene was the daughter of a man named Cratinus, who was also a painter (although much less renown).
Image Creator: Robinet Testard (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18069
Language: frm
Source Name: Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme [Boccaccio, The cleric and noble women, anonymous French translation]
Parent Collection: 1473 Augsburg
Image: mta_18069_OBJ.png