Cy sensuit histoire de mariamnie roine des juifs · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy sensuit histoire de mariamnie roine des juifs
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Important Queens; Noble Women; Beauty; King Herod; Mariamne
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Herodian Kingdom; Judaea
Description: This illumination depicts Mariamne, the queen of Judaea, standing on the right side of the image wearing a red dress and a crown. Mariamne was renowned for her incredible beauty, and for having been the wife of the jealous King Herod. Boccaccio explains that King Herod was so jealous and protective of Mariamne, that he did not want her to outlive him. He devised a plan for someone to murder Mariamne if he were to die before her, so that no one else could have her. The assassin is illustrated on the left side of the image swinging an axe above his head to kill Mariamne.
Image Creator: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:20151
Language: frm
Source Name: Des cleres et nobles femmes, De claris mulieribus in an anonymous French translation
Parent Collection: 1410 Paris; 1410 Paris
Image: mta_20151_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Important Women; Famous Women; Important Queens; Noble Women; Beauty; King Herod; Mariamne