Lamentations d’Hécube ; son mari et ses enfants sont morts ; Troie est en flammes · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Lamentations d’Hécube ; son mari et ses enfants sont morts ; Troie est en flammes
Subject: Murder; Lamentations; Misery; Death; Hecuba; Troy
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Troy
Description: Hecuba, in the blue gown, is surrounded by a few of the many horrible things that she has seen through her life. In the pink robe is her husband, Priam, dead at her feet. The top left corner shows Troy burning, and the right side of the image shows the death of some of her children.
Image Creator: Master of the Cleres Femmes of the Duke of Berry (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:19879
Language: fre
Source Name: Livre des Femmes Nobles et Renommées
Parent Collection: 1403 Paris; 1403 Paris
Image: mta_19879_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Murder; Lamentations; Misery; Death; Hecuba; Troy