Lydgate-siege-troy-wheel-fortune-detail.jpg
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| Description |
English:
Illustration from John Lydgate's
Siege of Troy
, showing the Wheel of Fortune held/turned by the Quene of Fortune. On the left, Dame Doctryne is accompanyied by two male figures, Holy Texte and Scrypture, and two female figures, Glose and Moralyzacion. They are shown helping people rise on Fortune's Wheel because, Lydgate says, scripture is about that which shall fall.
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| Date | Mid 15th-century. | ||||
| Source | http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/inthebigynnyng/manuscript/ms1/ | ||||
| Author | The artist is unknown. | ||||
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