# Famous Persons: Queen Tomyris [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [ANDREA DEL CASTAGNO]() - Date: 1401-1450 - Technique: Fresco transferred to wood, 245 x 155 cm ## Commentary Famous Persons: Queen Tomyris c. 1450 Fresco transferred to wood, 245 x 155 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence The picture shows one of the three famous women represented in the cycle. Tomyris was the queen of nomadic people of central Asia in ancient times. According to Herodotus \(1:214\), Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Persian empire, met his death in battle against her. Because of the circumstances, the episode came to be regarded as symbolic act of justice, and paintings of it were commissioned to hang in courts of law. Moreover, Medieval typology made Tomyris a prefiguration of the Virgin triumphing over the Satan. ## Related artworks - [Christ in the Sepulchre with Two Angels]() - [Christ in the Sepulchre with Two Angels \(synopia\)]() - [Crucifixion and Saints]() - [Crucifixion \(detail\)]() - [Crucifixion]() - [Crucifixion]() - [Deposition]() - [Dormition of the Virgin]() - [Dormition of the Virgin]() - [Dormition of the Virgin]() - [Famous Persons Cycle \(reconstruction\)]() - [Famous Persons: Dante Allighieri]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()