Iconography
	GODS & MYTHS
	Venus
	→ Myths → Birth (Venus Anadyomene) → Not squeezing her hair dry
	→ Single figure → Without attributes → Standing → Miscellaneous → Nude
	→ Single figure → With attributes → Doves
	Jupiter
	→ With other figures → Mars → With Venus
	Mars
	→ With Venus → With Amor → In landscape or clouds
	→ Single figure → Standing
	Vulcan
	→ The forge of Vulcan → Miscellaneous
	MAGIC & SCIENCE
	Astronomy and astrology
	→ Planets → Represented as planetary deities → Individual → Mars → Standing
	→ Planets → Represented as planetary deities → With planet children → Mars → Soldiers
	→ Planets → Represented as planetary deities → With planet children → Venus → Naked women only
	SECULAR ICONOGRAPHY
	Coats-of-Arms
	→ England → Unidentified
	SOCIAL LIFE
	Warfare
	→ Soldiers → Miscellaneous
	Nudity
	→ Female → Nude in landscape

	Further details
	ARTIST/CREATOR
	English
	DATE
	circa 1450
	LOCATION
	Oxford, Bodleian Library → Fairfax 16 (S.C. 3896), fol. 14v
	TEXT/BOOK/DOCUMENT (SOURCE OF PHOTO)
	Chaucer, Geoffrey → The Complaint of Mars and Venus

	Notes on photograph
	BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION
	Fritz Saxl and Hans Meier, Verzeichnis Astrologischer und Mythologischer illustrierter Handschriften des lateinischen Mittelalters, 3, 1, London 1953, pp. 173-187, plate 39

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	RELATIONS
	Bodleian Library

	Acknowledgements
	Record created with the generous support of the Dean's Development Fund of the School of Advanced Study, University of London

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