Medea orders the dismemberment of her brother; she has her own sons killed and delivered to Jason while King Creon’s palace and her rival Creusa burn in the background, from Giovanni Boccaccio’s Des clères et nobles femmes [Of Famous Women], Paris or Île-de-France, ca. 1460–70
"The Splendor of the Word: Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts," Oct. 21, 2005-Feb. 12, 2006, at the New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, New York, N.Y. 10018.
I wanted to run my fingertips over the cool, shimmering expanses of gold in illustrations of New Testament scenes in a two-volume Book of the Hours (Avignon, France, ca. 1390-1400).
