Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Roman de la Rose
France, Rouen, ca. 1525
MS M.948. Fol. 159r

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Roman de la Rose: Scene, Zeusis painting Five Virgins -- Among five nude women, the foremost two only partly draped with scarf, posing for Zeusis, wearing cap, seated on bench, holding palette with left hand and raising paintbrush with right hand to arched panel depicting two of the nude women, mounted on easel.
Scene in room with panelled walls and tiled floor.