Leaf from a Book of Hours: Ape Fishing (verso)
Cleveland Museum of Art

Leaf from a Book of Hours: Ape Fishing (verso)

c. 1500–1510

ink, tempera and liquid gold on vellum
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

The ape and the wild boar symbolized vice in general and lust in particular during the Middle Ages.

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