Cy sensuit histoire de la tres noble claudie vestale rommanie vierge · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy sensuit histoire de la tres noble claudie vestale rommanie vierge
Subject: Vestal Virgin; Filial Devotion; Important Women; Famous Women; Noble Women; Claudia
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Italy; Ancient Rome
Description: This illumination depicts a vestal virgin named Claudia. She is depicted grabbing onto a man wearing a brown shirt and a blue head wrap while hitting him. Her father was a noble man who, under the order of the senate, rode through a populous area of Rome on a chariot for a triumph procession. A man had run up to Claudia’s father in a rage and was about to attack him, but not before Claudia put herself in front of the man to protect her father. The man in the blue head wrap is illustrated grabbing on to Claudia’s father and attempting to drag him out of the chariot while Claudia attacks the plebeian. Boccaccio explains Claudia is praiseworthy due to her devotion to her father and for her actions of risking her life for him.
Image Creator: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:20047
Language: frm
Source Name: Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation
Parent Collection: 1410 Paris; 1410 Paris
Image: mta_20047_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Vestal Virgin; Filial Devotion; Important Women; Famous Women; Noble Women; Claudia