A Courtier Standing Between Covetousness and Dissimulation [fol. 14 recto]
1513
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
About the artist
Artist
French early 16th Century
A French draftsman from the early 1500s filled sheets of laid paper with tiny, sharp-tongued instructions—ink sketches paired with warnings like “Do Not Eat Your Heart Out” or “Feed Not Things That Have Sharp Claws.”…
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