2-713-876 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Allegory of the Liberal Arts: Logic and Grammar', early 15th century, (1943). A seated woman holds a snake in each hand, flanked by two bearded men holding books, (philosophers?). At lower right another woman holds her breast, while a young man, (a monk?) also holds a book. Drawing in the Ambrosian Library, Milan, Italy. From "Europäische Handzeichnungen", (Five Hundred Years of European Drawings), by Bernhard Degenhart. [Atlantis-Verlag Berlin, Zürich, 1943]