[The Argument - While Calisto and Melibea Talk, Sosia and Tristan Stand Guard and Lucrecia Waits at a Distance] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [The Argument - While Calisto and Melibea Talk, Sosia and Tristan Stand Guard and Lucrecia Waits at a Distance]
Subject: Spanish romances; Calisto (Fictitious character); Melibea (Fictitious character); Sosia (Fictitious character); Tristan (Fictitious character); Lucrecia (Fictitious character); Gardens; Walls; Moon; Love; Lovers; Servants
Period: 1500-1550;
Geographic: Germany; Augsburg (Germany); Free Imperial City of Augsburg; Holy Roman Empire
Description: This image shows five characters: Calisto and Melibea sitting under a tree in the midground, Lucrecia in the background, and Sosia and Tristan in the foreground. Calisto, Melibea, and Lucrecia are within the walls of Melibea’s garden. Sosia and Tristan are standing guard outside the garden wall while Calisto and Melibea talk and hold hands. The moon in the upper left corner indicates that the scene is taking place at night. Lucrecia is standing in the background, waiting from a distance for Melibea to conclude her rendezvous with Calisto.
Image Creator: Hans Weiditz (Illustrator); Marx Wirsung (Printer); Sigismund Grymm (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Wood engraving
Identifier: mta:19795
Source Name: Ain hipsche Tragedia von zwaien liebhabenden mentschen ainem Ritter Calixstus unn ainer Edlen junckfrawen Melibia genannt/ deren anfang müesam was/ das mittel sieß mit dem aller bittersten ir bayder sterben beschlossen.
Parent Collection: 1520 Augsbery Weiditz, Wirsung & Grymm (Coloured)
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