Olimpiade a sut royne tres noble de macedonie · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Olimpiade a sut royne tres noble de macedonie
Subject: Alexander the Great; Olympias; Important Women; Famous Women; King Philip II
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Macedonia; Epirus; Ancient Greece
Description: This illumination depicts a portrait of Olympias, the queen of Macedon. She is illustrated in royal clothing with a scepter in her left hand and a bird perched on her right hand. Olympias was the wife of King Philip II of Macedon, and mother of Alexander the Great.
Image Creator: Robinet Testard (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:25881
Language: frm
Source Name: Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme [Boccaccio, The cleric and noble women, anonymous French translation]
Parent Collection: Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme. Illuminations by Robinet Testard (1488-1496); Boccace, Des cleres et nobles femmes, traduction française anonyme. Illuminations by Robinet Testard (1488-1496)
Image: mta_25881_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Alexander the Great; Olympias; Important Women; Famous Women; King Philip II