La vestale Rhéa Sylvia, qui a mis au monde Romulus et Rémus, ici allaités par une louve, est enterrée vivante · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: La vestale Rhéa Sylvia, qui a mis au monde Romulus et Rémus, ici allaités par une louve, est enterrée vivante
Subject: Vestal Virgin; Rome; Capitoline wolf; She-Wolf; Romulus and Remus
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Rome
Description: Rhea Sylvia was a Vestal Virgin that somehow became intimate with a man, resulting in a pregnancy. She gave birth to twin boys – Romulus and Remus, who would grow up to found Rome. Rhea Sylvia was punished by being buried alive, which is pictured in the center of this image. Rhea Sylvia wears a black cloak while two men dig her grave. To the bottom left corner of the image, Romulus and Remus are suckled by a she-wolf. This famous scene represents when the twins were exposed but survived as a wolf fed them.
Image Creator: Master of the Cleres Femmes of the Duke of Berry (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:20025
Language: fre
Source Name: Livre des Femmes Nobles et Renommées
Parent Collection: 1403 Paris
Image: mta_20025_OBJ.png