Cy apres sensuit de marpesie ou marthesie et lampedone seurs roynes des amazones · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit de marpesie ou marthesie et lampedone seurs roynes des amazones
Subject: Martesia; Lampedo; Amazons; Important Women; Famous Women; Important Queens; War; Revenge; Marpesia
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Themiscyra; Thermodon; Modern-day Turkey
Description: This illuminated image depicts Marpesia (also known as Martesia) and Lampedo, sister queens of the Amazons. They are wearing crowns to demonstrate their royal status; however, they also have weapons by their chairs to signify their illustrious military skills and achievements. The Amazon women are known to have lived their lives dedicated to war and military pursuits. Boccaccio explains that after all the Amazon women were all widowed, they took up arms to avenge their husbands, and continued to thrive off battle. Marpesia and Lampedo were elected by their fellow Amazons to become queens. There are other Amazon women in the image.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18426
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_18426_OBJ.jpg