Cy apres sensuit de la tres belle yole fille du roy des etholiens · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit de la tres belle yole fille du roy des etholiens
Subject: Famous Women; Important Queens; Hercules; Roman Mythology; Gods; Iole; Important Women
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Aetolia; Ancient Greece
Description: This illumination depicts the marriage of Iole and Hercules. Iole is illustrated wearing a pink dress on the right side of the image as she sits on a pillow. Boccaccio explains that Iole is not in love with Hercules because he killed her father after he did not give Hercules permission to marry Iole. In order to seek her revenge on her husband for the murder of her father, Iole allowed Hercules to fall madly in love with her. By doing this, Iole was able to convince Hercules to do whatever she asked. She stripped him of his pride by getting him to dress as a woman and spin wool. Hercules is illustrated wearing women’s clothing and spinning wool as he sits across from Iole.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18435
Language: frm
Source Name: Livre que fist Jehan BOCACE de Certalde des cleres et nobles femmes, lequel il envoia à Audice de Accioroles de Florence, contesse de Haulteville [Book from Giovanni Boccaccio of Certaldo called the cleric and noble women, of which he sent to Audice Accioroles of Florence, Countess of Haulteville]
Parent Collection: 1401 Florence
Image: mta_18435_OBJ.jpg