Named after the red lead pigment used to outline them, these illustrate luxury manuscript books. Examples from around 400 CE through accounts of the Crusades, to Aesop’s fables in 1530.
Pichore
A woman who became pregnant as a result of incest, whose only portrait is in the Vatican Museums, and another whose husband was first to be killed in the war against Troy, whose painting is near Nelson’s dockyard.
First wife of Jason of the Golden Fleece, abandoned when he went off on his quest and married Medea. He came to a sticky end, though.
Final two stories, of a brother and sister caught in an incestuous relationship, and one of the many widowed Greeks from the Trojan war. Very different paintings hidden away.
The tragic story of Jason’s first wife, whom he abandoned in favour of Medea, the sorceress. In the end, Hypsipyle got her revenge on him.
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