Ci sensuit histoire de thamar noble paintre fille de micon · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Ci sensuit histoire de thamar noble paintre fille de micon
Subject: Painting; Famous Women; Important Women; Thamyris
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Ancient Greece
Description: This illumination depicts a young woman named Thamyris standing in front of an easel as she holds a brush with her right hand and a pallet in her left as she paints a portrait of woman. Boccaccio explains that Thamyris was renowned for her exceptional painting skills and was the daughter of a famous painter (Micon).
Image Creator: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:20041
Language: frm
Source Name: Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation
Parent Collection: 1410 Paris
Image: mta_20041_OBJ.jpg