La tres noble claudie vestalle romanie vierge · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: La tres noble claudie vestalle romanie vierge
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Filial Devotion; Vestal Virgin; Claudia
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Italy; Ancient Rome
Description: This illumination depicts a portrait of a woman named Claudia, who was a vestal virgin in Rome. She is illustrated looking down at a bird that is perched on her right hand. Boccaccio explains that Claudia is worthy of praise and renown as she had physically stopped a man who was trying to attack her consul father in a large crowd.
Image Creator: Robinet Testard (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18072
Language: frm
Source Name: Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme [Boccaccio, The cleric and noble women, anonymous French translation]
Parent Collection: Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme. Illuminations by Robinet Testard (1488-1496)
Image: mta_18072_OBJ.png