Von Marcia varronis · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Von Marcia varronis
Subject: Famous Women; Marcia; Varro; Chastity; Sculpting; Painting; Important Women
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Ancient Rome; Italy
Description: Marcia, a Roman woman who remained a virgin her entire life, is depicted on the right side of the engraving painting a portrait. Boccaccio explains that Marcia is worthy of renown for her chastity and for her painting and sculpting abilities. She is known to have mostly painted and sculpted figures of women, which is why there is a portrait of a woman wearing a crown in her painting. The left side of the engraving depicts Marcia sculpting a figure of a woman. Her sculpting tools are illustrated on the table in front of her. Marcia’s name is engraved at the top of the engraving on the right side to identify her. The name Varronis is engraved at the top on the leftt side of the engraving, which refers to her father, Varro.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Engraver)
Type: Text; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:18045
Language: ger
Source Name: Hyenach volget der kurcz syn von ettlichen frauen von denen johannes boccacius in latein beschriben hat und doctor heinricus stainhöwel geteütschet [Following the short stories of several women of which Giovanni Boccaccio wrote in Latin, and doctor Heinrich Steinhöwel translated]
Parent Collection: 1473 Augsburg
Image: mta_18045_OBJ.png