Chloelia der Romischen Jung frauwen · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Chloelia der Romischen Jung frauwen
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Hostages; Cloelia
Period: 1500-1550;
Geographic: Italy; Ancient Rome
Description: This engraving depicts Cloelia, a young Roman woman, riding a horse through a deep river with many women looking at her. Boccaccio explains that Cloelia was given to a foreign king as a hostage, and when she escaped, she took many other hostages with her back to Rome. While escaping, she came across a river that was too treacherous to pass. She found a horse, and despite never having ridden one, she got herself and the other women across safely by means of this horse. This image depicts her taking the other women across the river one by one as there is only one other female on the horse with Cloelia. There are women on each side of the shore.
Image Creator: Joerg Breu (Engraver)
Type: Text; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:18360
Language: ger
Source Name: Ein schöne Cronica oder Hystoribuch von den fürnämlichsten Weybern [A beautiful chronicle or history book of reputable women]
Parent Collection: 1543 Stayner; 1543 Stayner
Image: mta_18360_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Hostages; Cloelia