Antoine se tue à la vue de Cléopâtre morte sur son trône, deux aspics aux bras · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Antoine se tue à la vue de Cléopâtre morte sur son trône, deux aspics aux bras
Subject: Antony; Poison; Snakes; Suicide; Cleopatra
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Egypt
Description: Antony walks in to find his wife, Cleopatra, dead. She committed suicide by placing two snakes on her arms to poison her. She is seen to the right of the image, dead in a throne. Antony is to the left, and kills himself with a sword upon finding her body.
Image Creator: Master of the Cleres Femmes of the Duke of Berry (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:20218
Language: fre
Source Name: Livre des Femmes Nobles et Renommées
Parent Collection: 1403 Paris
Image: mta_20218_OBJ.png