[Sappho Playing Mournful Songs with her Lyre] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Sappho Playing Mournful Songs with her Lyre]
Subject: Sappho; Poetry; Lyre; Important Women
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Ancient Greece; Lesbos
Description: This illustration depicts Sappho, the poetess, sitting down while playing the lyre. Her face shows a joyless expression as she plays her mournful songs. The man sitting in front of Sappho is the man she fell in love with whom rejected her interest in him, which resulted in the melancholic poetry and verses she wrote.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:11999
Language: frm
Source Name: De la louenge et vertu des nobles et cleres dames [Of praise and virtue of the noble and clergy women]
Parent Collection: 1493 Paris; 1493 Paris
Image: mta_11999_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Sappho; Poetry; Lyre; Important Women