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Wild men and animals in a landscape (fragment)
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Wild men and animals in a landscape (fragment)

anonymous · c. 1500 - c. 1520 · tapestry; wool

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Tapestry fragment (?) with Hortus Conclusus with wild men; on the left in the foreground sits a woman with a child on her lap; she has hanging hair and a crown, and a long over-garment of red, leaving the arms and bosom bare. The wild man has a wreath with a plume on his head, offers the child a falcon, and wears a paltrock with a skirt of deerskin, finished with cock-comb incisions. At their feet lie a dog and a sheep. In the center a flowering tree. From the right come two long-necked large animals, the foremost with a spotted neck and grimacing lion (?) head and the body draped with flowering branches, behind it a camel (?) with a speckled skin and ridden by a boy. A woven enclosure is partially visible in the foreground and background. In the distance castles.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
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tapestry
Credit lineWildemannen en dieren in een landschap (fragment). c. 1500 - c. 1520. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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