The Music Making Couple

Enjoying an intimate garden tête-à-tête, this well-dressed couple is wealthy enough to afford the leisure time to make beautiful music together. The walled garden enclave suggests that they have stolen away from a busy castle for a little privacy. The closed garden, or hortus conclusus, was often seen as an emblem of purity, especially in images of the Virgin Mary and infant Christ. Yet this woman’s studied attempt to avoid the man’s appraising glance suggests that they both have other things on their mind than playing instruments.

Sull’opera

Scheda

Nella stessa sala · Gallery 202, Art Institute of Chicago

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In catalogo

Fonti

The Old Woman and The Fool in a Window

Coat of Arms of Rohrbach and Eilge von Holzhausen

Wappen der Familien von Rohrbach und von Holzhausen

Das Urteil des Paris und der Traum des Königs Merci

The Annunciation, 1490–95

The Adoration of the Christ Child, c. 1515

Portrait of Jean Gros (recto); Coat of Arms of Jean Gros (verso), 1460–64

The Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist, c. 1520

Saint Barbara, c. 1520

Saint Catherine, c. 1520

Fragment from Christ Carrying the Cross: Saint John the Evangelist, c. 1500

Lamentation over the Body of Christ, c. 1500