Cy apres sensuit hystoire de penthesille royne amazones · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit hystoire de penthesille royne amazones
Subject: Amazons; Important Women; Famous Women; Important Queens; The Trojan War; Penthesilea
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Asia Minor; Ancient Greece; Troy
Description: This illumination depicts Penthesilea, the queen of the Amazons, riding a horse while holding a bow. She is illustrated wearing a green dress and a crown at the foreground of the image. She has companions riding on horses beside her, which are other Amazon women. Penthesilea, as Boccaccio describes, was a great warrior. She wanted to secure a strong heir for the Amazons, so she sought out Hector of Troy to provide her with an heir. She fought in a battle against the Greeks to prove herself worthy of bearing Hectors child. She died in battle trying to impress Hector.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18444
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_18444_OBJ.jpg