Hercule luttant avec les Amazones Orichie et Antiopé · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Hercule luttant avec les Amazones Orichie et Antiopé
Subject: Hercules; Labours; Royal Girdle; Battles; Amazons
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Thermodon; Themiscyra; Kingdom of the Amazons
Description: Hercules, in the red cloak, fights against Orithya and Antiope, the Queens of the Amazons, who wear blue and pink cloaks. Hercules was sent to fetch the royal girdle from the queens as one of his great labors. Because Hercules, with all his accomplishments, was sent against them, this means that their power was recognized and therefore a great honor to the queens.
Image Creator: Master of the Cleres Femmes of the Duke of Berry (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19822
Language: fre
Source Name: Livre des Femmes Nobles et Renommées
Parent Collection: 1403 Paris; 1403 Paris
Image: mta_19822_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Hercules; Labours; Royal Girdle; Battles; Amazons