Pompée Pauline femme de Senequé · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Pompée Pauline femme de Senequé
Subject: Famous Women; Noble Women; Pompeia Paulina; Seneca; Emperor Nero; Pisonian Conspiracy; Devotion; Important Women
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Italy; Ancient Rome
Description: This illumination depicts a portrait of a woman named Pompeia Paulina, who was the wife of Lucius Annaeus Seneca. Seneca was the tutor of Emperor Nero, and when Seneca was wrongfully suspected of being involved in the Pisonian Conspiracy, he was forced to commit suicide. Pompeia Paulina was so devoted to her husband, that she attempted suicide along with him. She survived the attempt and lived out the rest of her days as a widow in honour of her husband.
Image Creator: Robinet Testard (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:18101
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_18101_OBJ.png
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Famous Women; Noble Women; Pompeia Paulina; Seneca; Emperor Nero; Pisonian Conspiracy; Devotion; Important Women