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| Keywords: French - Writing Tablet with Scenes from the Lives of Virgil and Aristotle - Walters 71267 - Back.jpg This writing tablet has a depression for wax on the underside but the lid that protected the wax is missing Legends about wily women making fools of intelligent men from classical times were very popular in the late Middle Ages The relief on this writing tablet contains two such episodes In the upper register the Roman writer Virgil who thought that he was being drawn up in a basket for a secret rendezvous with a beautiful woman was left suspended in mid-air for all to laugh at Below on the left Alexander asks his lover Campaspe also known as Phyllis to ensnare the Greek philosopher Aristotle Her success is depicted on the right between 1340 1360 Medieval ivory cm 9 5 5 2 0 6 accession number 71 267 26467 John Lumsden Propert London 1834-1902 Sir Thomas Gibson-Carmichael London Thomas Gibson-Carmichael Sale London May 12 1902 no 2 H Wareham Harding New York Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1902 The International Style The Arts in Europe Around 1400 The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1962 place of origin Paris France Walters Art Museum license Medieval ivory in the Walters Art Museum Art of France in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Aristotle and Phyllis Virgil in the basket | ||||
