Women Artists from the 1300s-1400s - Illuminated Manuscripts

Women Artists from the 1300s-1400s - Illuminated Manuscripts

Unknown Artist from Detail of a miniature of Ancient Greek artist Thamyris (Timarete) painting her picture of the goddess Diana, N. France,(Rouen) . The original is in the British Library collection ID 43537. c1400-25.

Unknown Artist Marcia Painting Self-Portrait using Mirror (from Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) De claris mulieribus, Anonymous French Translantio, Le livre de femmes nobles et renomees, France c 1440 British Library Artiste faisant son autoportrait


De mulieribus claris (Famous Women or On Famous Women or Of Famous Women) is a collection of biographies of historical and mythological women by the Florentine author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) published in 1374. It is notable as the first collection devoted exclusively to biographies of women in Western literature.

Unknown Artist from Boccaccio (1313-1375) De claris mulieribus, Anonymous French Translantio, Le livre de femmes nobles et renomees, France c 1440 British Library

When creating the female artist character of Marcia for his book, Boccaccio 1313-1375 used as his prototype, the famous female painter of ancient Greece called Iaia of Kyzikos (late 2nd – early 1st century BC; from the city which is currently Cyzicus.

Unknown Artist from Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) De claris mulieribus, Anonymous French Translantio, Le livre de femmes nobles et renomees, France c 1440 British Library Autoportrait sur bois

Unknown Artist from Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) De claris mulieribus, Anonymous French Translantio, Le livre de femmes nobles et renomees, France c 1440 British Library Autoportrait sur bois

Unknown Artist from Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) De claris mulieribus, Anonymous French Translantio, Le livre de femmes nobles et renomees, France c 1440 British Library Artiste préparant une fresque

Unknown Artist from Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) Des cléres et nobles femmes, Spencer Collection MS. 33, f. 37v, French, c. 1470 Artist in her Atelier

Unknown Artist from Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) De claris mulieribus, Anonymous French Translantio, Le livre de femmes nobles et renomees, France c 1440 British Library Femme Sculpteur

Roman des Girart von Roussillon, Cod. 2449, f. 167v, Flemish, 1447, Österreichishe Nationalbibliothek, Vienna. Women Building

From Tabula Picta, Painting & Writing in Medieval Law, Marta Madero.

From Tabula Picta, Painting and Writing in Medieval Law, Marta Madero.

Royal 16 G V f. 73v Irene Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) De claris mulieribus, Anonymous French Translantio, Le livre de femmes nobles et renomees, France c 1440 British Library

Livre de la Cité des dames, c. 1401-1500, Français 607, f. 2r, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits.

Marcia sculpteert een beeld, miniatuur uit Boccaccio, La Louange et Virtue des Nobles et Cleres Dames, 1493 Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris

Thamar painting Diana. Boccacio, de mulieribus claris Le livre de femmes nobles et renomées (trad. anonyme), 15-16th century, France (Cognac). Bibliothèque Nationale MS Français 599 fol. 50.


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