Opis femme de Saturne · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Opis femme de Saturne
Subject: Important Queens; Ops; Opis; Goddesses; Gods; Saturn; Important Women; Famous Women
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Ancient Greece; Ancient Rome
Description: This illuminated image depicts a portrait of Opis (also called Ops). She is standing upright, wearing a crown and holding a scepter in her left hand. Boccaccio explains that Opis was the wife of Saturn, and she is renowned for having saved her children from his wrath. A prophecy had foretold that her children, Jupiter, Neptune, and Pluto would eventually defeat Saturn. To avoid this from happening, Saturn planned to kill them. Opis saved her children from her husband which is why Boccaccio wrote on her.
Image Creator: Robinet Testard (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:17124
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); Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme. Illuminations by Robinet Testard (1488-1496)
Image: mta_17124_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Important Queens; Ops; Opis; Goddesses; Gods; Saturn; Important Women; Famous Women