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Iconology of the Wayfarer Triptych – Detail
It has been seen that at the end of the fifteenth century and in the early years of the sixteenth, a musical boating party was substituted in May miniatures for one of the several earlier iconographic norms. At the beginning of the fifteenth century, May scenes show a mounted young man hawking, as in the Rohan Hours, a type also widespread in the fourteenth century, or, as in the Limbourgs’ calendar illustration from the even more famous Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, a scene of the whole court hawking in May. Earlier, however, in northern Italy May was represented as a pleasant outing, with strolling couples and a luncheon al fresco, in the landscape painting in the Torre d’Aquila of the Castello de Buon Consiglio at Trent [Pächt, 1950, 38]. Then, in what is, according to Schretlen [Schretlen, 1950, 20, pl. 13a], a German copy of a Netherlandish calendar for the years 1458 to 1477, we find May characterized in a scene of a youthful courtier seated beneath a tree playing a lute for his lady love, an iconographic motif seemingly of Italian derivation, though the lady’s immersion in a tub has another source. The motif of a naked woman in a tub probably derives from the representation of one of Venus’ children in the popular planet pictures. Northern illuminations and prints repeat the theme of amorousdalliance as a characteristic of the May scene in the fifteenth century. The scene of a young music-making couple became the preferred type, though the earlier hawking scene also appeared, but with far less frequency. However, only in the Ghent-Bruges region does the musical boating party with boughs in the boat appear as the May calendar scene. (pp. 273-274)
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