Nicaula Ethiopis regina · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Nicaula Ethiopis regina
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Important Queens; Wisdom; Nicaula; King Solomon
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Egypt; Ethiopia; Jerusalem
Description: This engraving depicts Nicaula, the queen of Ethiopia, on the left side of the engraving shaking hands with King Solomon of Jerusalem. Nicaula, as Boccaccio explains, was incredibly wise and wanted to hear and listen to the wisdom and intellect of Solomon. She had traveled from Ethiopia to Jerusalem to meet him. This engraving depicts their first meeting. Behind Nicaula is presumably one of her servants, who is carrying a balsam tree. The tree was one of many gifts that Nicaula had given to Solomon.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Engraver)
Type: Text; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:18164
Language: lat
Source Name: Iohannis Bocacij in librum de claris mulieribus
Parent Collection: 1487 Leuven; 1487 Leuven
Image: mta_18164_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Important Queens; Wisdom; Nicaula; King Solomon