Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Roman de la Rose
France, Rouen, ca. 1525
MS M.948. Fol. 083v

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Roman de la Rose: Scene, Golden Age -- Among two pairs of man, including elderly bearded man, raising right hand to shoulder of younger man, looking back, both partly draped with garments, and two other men, one partly draped with garment, lowering right hand and with left hand indicating male youth in foreground, all surround woman, wearing tattered clothes, with right hand raised. At far right, another woman looks back over right shoulder.
Scene in grassy garden surrounded by trees with hilly landscape in background.