Cy apres sensuit histoire de julie de gae cesar fille · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit histoire de julie de gae cesar fille
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Julius Caesar; Sacrifice; Julia; Pompey the Great
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Ancient Rome; Italy
Description: This illustration depicts Julia, daughter of Julius Caesar, looking grieved after seeing the blood-stained cloak in front of her which is being held by a servant. The blood-stained cloak belongs to her husband, Pompey the Great. After seeing the blood on the cloak, Julia believed her husband must have been violently murdered. Pompey was sacrificing an animal, and when his clothes got stained by the animal's blood, a servant took his dirty clothes away to get new ones. The servant happened to pass by Julia while holding the cloak stained with animal blood. Before the servant can explain that it is not her husband’s blood, Julia falls to the ground and dies.
Image Creator: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:20079
Language: frm
Source Name: Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation
Parent Collection: 1410 Paris
Image: mta_20079_OBJ.jpg