Love is Blind

1570 (High Renaissance)

17 cm 23.2 cm

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Emblem books were a popular source of amusement during the late medieval period. They offered mysterious images whose meaning had to be puzzled out through a combination of contemplating the illustration and reading the accompanying text. These emblems offered a moral to be po...

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Olschki [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, ca. 1905, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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