Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

Title: Feast in the Garden of Love
Creator: Master E.S., artist
Description: In this satire of courtly love, a man fondles a woman's exposed breast at a table while others feast. Below, another women in elegant clothing lifts the robe of a jester to expose his genitals. The hunting scene occurring in the background and the hawks perched on the roof and flying above allude to the lustful conquests occurring in the foreground. Keith Moxey has suggested that the audience for this print, and other works by Master E.S., would have been an educated middle class that appreciated the artist's mocking of aristocratic activities.
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Public Domain
Subject (See Also): Birds Courtly Behavior Fool Genitals, Display of Hunting Love Nobility Sexuality
Geographic Area: Germany
Century: 15
Date: ca. 1465
Related Work:
Current Location:
Original Location:
Artistic Type (Category): Digital images; Prints
Artistic Type (Material/Technique): Copperplate engravings
Donor:
Height/Width/Length(cm): //
Inscription:
Related Resources: Keith Moxey, "Master E. S. and the Folly of Love," Simiolus 11.3/4 (1980): 125-48; Joseph Leo Koerner, The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art (U. Chicago, 1993), reprint 1996), 348.