I believe there are several Roman de la Rose manuscripts. One was illuminated 1350 France.
>From 15th century Roman de la Rose http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/gradstudies/eurolit/images/rose.jpg Tapestry Roman de la Rose http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/03/hm3_3_2_6a.html The poem "Roman de la Rose" was written by Guillaime de Lorris in c1275. It was a popular poem to illustrate. -----Original Message----- Susan Farmer wrote: >> _http://homepages.tig.com.au/~dispater/armourers3.htm_ >> (http://homepages.tig.com.au/~dispater/armourers3.htm) > > If I had to guess, I'd say that was one of the illustrations from > Christine de Pizan's "City of Women." There are other such examples in > that manuscript (like women building a house .....) I wrote a bit earlier that I had found a detail of the image (a close-up of just the lady) in the Medieval Woman Book of Days, attributed to a 14th c. Roman de la Rose. The Roman de la Rose does have a scene in which Dame Nature (an allegorical figure) is described as working at a forge, making new people to replace dead ones. However, the attribution line on the image in the Book of Days was clearly wrong, as this picture was obviously late 15th c. (I posted a link to the actual 14th c. picture, a much earlier rendition of Fortune at the forge.) _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
