Cy apres sensuit de iulie de gaye cesar fille · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit de iulie de gaye cesar fille
Subject: Julius Caesar; Pompey; Pompey the Great; Important Women; Famous Women; Sacrifice; Julia
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Italy; Ancient Rome
Description: This illustration depicts Julia, daughter of Julius Caesar, looking grieved after seeing the blood-stained cloak in front of her which is being held by a servant. The blood-stained cloak belongs to her husband, Pompey the Great. After seeing the blood on the cloak, Julia believed her husband must have been violently murdered. Pompey was sacrificing an animal, and when his clothes got stained by the animal's blood, a servant took his dirty clothes away to get new ones. The servant happened to pass by Julia while holding the cloak stained with animal blood. Before the servant can explain that it is not her husband’s blood, Julia falls to the ground and dies.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18507
Language: frm
Source Name: Livre que fist Jehan BOCACE de Certalde des cleres et nobles femmes, lequel il envoia à Audice de Accioroles de Florence, contesse de Haulteville [Book from Giovanni Boccaccio of Certaldo called the cleric and noble women, of which he sent to Audice Accioroles of Florence, Countess of Haulteville]
Parent Collection: 1401 Florence; 1401 Florence
Image: mta_18507_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Julius Caesar; Pompey; Pompey the Great; Important Women; Famous Women; Sacrifice; Julia

Media: mta_18507_OBJ.jpg