Cy apres sensuit histoire de agrippine de nero cesar mere · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cy apres sensuit histoire de agrippine de nero cesar mere
Subject: Nero; Emperor Nero; Agrippina the Younger; Important Women; Famous Women; Noble Women
Period: 1400-1450;
Geographic: Italy; Ancient Rome
Description: This illumination depicts Agrippina, the mother of Emperor Nero, being murdered. She is illustrated in a white dress as a man cuts through her abdomen. There is another man swinging a club above his head. Emperor Nero is illustrated on the left side of the image pointing his finger towards the men, which symbolizes his orders to have his mother killed.
Image Creator: Master of Boethius (Illuminator)
Type: Text; Illumination
Identifier: mta:20156
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_20156_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Early Modern Women
Subject: Nero; Emperor Nero; Agrippina the Younger; Important Women; Famous Women; Noble Women