Fan sheet of parchment (?) With tempera on the front with a 'Floralia' with Vestal virgins and on the back a medallion with two playing, naked children and a poem between two cornucopias, birds and butterflies, Fan sheet of parchment (?) On which both sides are painted with tempera. Front: page-filling representation, in which a Vestal virgin offering incense in a golden barrel is central. The composition appears to be composed of two parts: on the left, an architectural environment with a perspective view of a walled garden with a shell-shaped fountain and in the background buildings and mountains, on the right, a garden with a pond (?) and mountains in the background. In the colonade on the left appears the Abundance, which runs with a cornucopia in the direction of the women, who bring flowers and wreaths to the image of Flora, which in a niche between the busts of an unknown god and of the goddess Artemis / Diana is placed. To the right of the sacrificing Virgin, a sad-looking woman, the Melancholy (daughter of Kronos / Saturn), is looking at two dancing children who cannot cheer her up. It is set on an octagonal stone, which refers to the fact that Saturn is also the god of geometry. On the left in the foreground is precious crockery and on the right is a small water with flowering plants. The performance is surrounded by a narrow golden border with shell motifs and grid work. The effect of the foreground is the painter's own invention, the remainder is after Abraham Blooteling's (engraver) engraving 'Aetas Aurea' (published by Nicolaas Visscher, Amsterdam) by G. de Lairesse's painting 'L'age d'or' or ' The golden age ', which will have been painted between 1667 and 1670. Blooteling presents 'The golden age' in the form of a Floralia, a celebration in honor of the originally Sabine goddess of fertility, Flora, who later became the Roman goddess of grain, wine and all blossoms. On April 28, 238 BC. her temple was inaugurated and people celebrated from that day b
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