Cy sensuit hystoire de la tres noble iuno fille de saturne et de opis et deesse tres ancienne des royaumes · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy sensuit hystoire de la tres noble iuno fille de saturne et de opis et deesse tres ancienne des royaumes
Subject: Roman Mythology; Goddesses; Important Women; Famous Women; Childbirth; Marriage; Juno
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Ancient Greece; Ancient Rome; Italy; Samos
Description: Juno, the goddess of childbirth and marriage is depicted at the top of this illumination appearing to be in the sky. There are women on the right side of the image below Juno to signify Juno’s protection over the women. There is one woman holding a baby, as Juno is the goddess of childbirth. There are religious men standing on the left side of the image, with one man holding a censer and swinging it up to the sky in honour of Juno.
Image Creator: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: StillImage; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19813
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_19813_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Roman Mythology; Goddesses; Important Women; Famous Women; Childbirth; Marriage; Juno