Loving couples (love, passion, marriage, sex, hate)

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1490 Fresco from the Picccolomini Library in Sienna depicting the marriage of a Portugese princess, Eleaonra to the Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick III. She and all her ladies wear Sayas and Mantos as well as Coffias de Tranzado
Medieval manuscripts blog: January 2013
Detail of a miniature of lovers, conversing in a garden; from the Maastricht Hours, Netherlands (Liège), 1st quarter of the 14th century, Stowe MS 17, f. 59r.
Medieval manuscripts blog: December 2012
An example of the faithlessness of women: detail of a miniature of Delilah cutting Samson's hair; from Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Roman de la Rose, France, c. 1380, Egerton MS 881, f. 128v.
Roundel with Delilah Cutting the Hair of Samson | North Netherlandish | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Roundel with Delilah Cutting the Hair of Samson