Five Panels: Allegory of Man and Occupations of the Months

ca. 1581 (Renaissance)

53 cm 59 cm

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Comparing the cycles of life-the life of an individual man and the cycle of the year for society- was a popular subject for art meant to decorate domestic spaces. Here, in the central roundel the lust of youth is contrasted with the decrepitude of old age.

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George Robinson Harding, London [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, October 14, 1905, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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माध्यम
painted enamel on copper
विधा
Enamels panels

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