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The Ages of Man: Medieval Interpretations of the Life Cycle
By (Author) Elizabeth L. Sears
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
29th April 2019
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Human figures depicted in art
704.942094
Hardback
320
Width 203mm, Height 254mm
Elizabeth Sears here combines rich visual material and textual evidence to reveal the sophistication, warmth, and humor of medieval speculations about the ages of man. Medieval artists illustrated this theme, establishing the convention that each of life's phases in turn was to be represented by the figure of a man (or, rarely, a woman) who reveale