Hypsicratee tres noble royne de ponte · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Hypsicratee tres noble royne de ponte
Subject: Mithridates VI; Important Women; Famous Women; Important Queens; War; Hypsicratea
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Anatolia; Modern day Turkey; Pontus
Description: This illumination depicts Hypsicratea, the wife of King Mithridates VI of Pontus, riding horseback and wearing armour on the right side of the image. She is illustrated looking at the soldier on the left side of the image, which is presumably her husband. Boccaccio explains that Hypsicratea is praiseworthy as she bravely risked her life as she followed her husband on his military expeditions.
Image Creator: Robinet Testard (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18087
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)
Image: mta_18087_OBJ.jpg