Writing Tablet with Scenes from the Lives of Virgil and Aristotle
Description
English: This writing tablet has a depression for wax on the underside, but the lid that protected the wax is missing. Legends about wily women making fools of intelligent men from classical times were very popular in the late Middle Ages. The relief on this writing tablet contains two such episodes. In the upper register, the Roman writer Virgil, who thought that he was being drawn up in a basket for a secret rendezvous with a beautiful woman, was left suspended in mid-air for all to laugh at. Below, on the left, Alexander asks his lover Campaspe (also known as Phyllis) to ensnare the Greek philosopher Aristotle. Her success is depicted on the right.
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between 1340 and 1360
date QS:P571,+1350-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1340-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1360-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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Walters Art Museum (Baltimore/Maryland/USA)
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Anonymous (French).'Writing Tablet with Scenes from the Lives of Virgil and Aristotle,'1340-1360. ivory. Walters Art Museum (71.267): Acquired by Henry Walters, 1902.