Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Le mortifiement de vaine plaisance
France, Angers, between 1455 and 1460
MS M.705 fol. 3r

Mortifiement de Vaine Plaisance: Soul holding her Heart -- Personification of Soul, as veiled woman, sits holding her heart clutched to her breast with both hands. Scene in dilapidated house, with landscape in distance.

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