. Range sheet of parchment (?) On which a show has been painted on both sides with Tempera. Front: leaf-filling show, where one in a golden barrel, incense sacrificing vestual virgin is central. The composition seems to be built from two parts: links, an architectural surroundings with perspective view to a walled garden with a shell-shaped fountain and in the background buildings and mountains; Right, a garden with pond (?) And mountains in the background. In the Kollonade on the left, the abundance appears with a horn of plenty in her hand in the direction of women who bring flowers and wrea
. Range sheet of parchment (?) On which a show has been painted on both sides with Tempera. Front: leaf-filling show, where one in a golden barrel, incense sacrificing vestual virgin is central. The composition seems to be built from two parts: links, an architectural surroundings with perspective view to a walled garden with a shell-shaped fountain and in the background buildings and mountains; Right, a garden with pond (?) And mountains in the background. In the Kollonade on the left, the abundance appears with a horn of plenty in her hand in the direction of women who bring flowers and wreaths to the image of flora, that in a niche between the busts of an unknown god and of The Goddess Artemis / Diana has been placed. To the right of the sacrificing virgin is a sad looking woman, the melancholy (daughter of Kronos / Saturn) to look at two dancing children, who cannot advise her. She is seated on an octagonal stone, who refers to the fact that Saturn is also the God of geometry. Left on the Vagrance is precious tableware and right is a small water with flowering plants. The show is surrounded by a narrow golden edge with shell motifs and grid work. The elaboration of the foreground is owned by the painter, the rest is to Abraham exposures (engraver) engraving 'Aetas Aurea' (published at Nicolaas Visscher, Amsterdam) by G. de Lairesse's painting 'l'Age d'Or' or ' The Golden Age ', which will be painted between 1667 and 1670. Explanation presents 'the Golden Age' in the form of a floralia; A party in honor of the, originally a sabian goddess of fertility, flora, who later became the Roman goddess of the grain, the wine and all blossoms. On April 28, 238 BC. Her temple was initiated and from that day between April 28 and the first days of May, the 'Floralia'. This multi-day party originated in the farm calendars in which Men VA
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