Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Roman de la Rose
France, Rouen, ca. 1525
MS M.948. Fol. 110v

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Roman de la Rose: Scene, False Seeming giving Heart to Forced Abstinence -- Dominican friar, tonsured, representing Personification of False Seeming, partly kneels, with both hands extends heart to right hand of woman, representing Personification of Forced Abstinence, in courtly dress, gathering garment with left hand.
Scene in garden before wall and part of building behind which is hilly landscape.