27-09-2026, 04:54 PM
I came here to ask for the video location as I did not see the seasons of life as a title. I did see the title I found pee, so thank you, I would never have guessed that is what you were talking about.
I have to note that a glance at this page does not appear to differentiate the age of anyone there other than the use of a cane for what seems to be a female character, but that seems more to stabilize her diagonal stance, (which I believe has a precedent elsewhere, which I think comes from a very different type of source material). Perhaps the figure at the top seems somewhat aged as well with a big nose and receding hairline. What order of aging do you see here? Left right up down? What kind of seasonal flow is that?
I never thought of the container to be one of pee. It is not a flask. It seems more like a Pilgrim bottle. If it was supposed to be a flask of pee, why not draw it like all other such flasks are drawn. Instead it has a tiny opening with a stopper. Perhaps it is still a bottle of pee. It is actually the only item in the drawing of that figure I do not see referenced in the source material I am speaking of, it would infer something though.
The female figure seems to be female because of her jumper/dress/apron. I think that might be the important part. Also, why garlands instead of the rosary? How does that make her aged? Seems more like disabled but spry, than aged.
For whatever its worth, I could only find one garland drawing from the 15th century, the garland is coincidentally in the form of a rosary, but it is from 1490. It has lilies on it too and says la vie eternelle.
Book of Hours
France, Paris, 1490-1500
MS M.7 fol. 44r
Not sure how they go with the fountains, is it the fountain of youth?
Anyway I will go with my own take for now, the matches would need to be far more convincing for me to think of it as the ages of man.
I have to note that a glance at this page does not appear to differentiate the age of anyone there other than the use of a cane for what seems to be a female character, but that seems more to stabilize her diagonal stance, (which I believe has a precedent elsewhere, which I think comes from a very different type of source material). Perhaps the figure at the top seems somewhat aged as well with a big nose and receding hairline. What order of aging do you see here? Left right up down? What kind of seasonal flow is that?
I never thought of the container to be one of pee. It is not a flask. It seems more like a Pilgrim bottle. If it was supposed to be a flask of pee, why not draw it like all other such flasks are drawn. Instead it has a tiny opening with a stopper. Perhaps it is still a bottle of pee. It is actually the only item in the drawing of that figure I do not see referenced in the source material I am speaking of, it would infer something though.
The female figure seems to be female because of her jumper/dress/apron. I think that might be the important part. Also, why garlands instead of the rosary? How does that make her aged? Seems more like disabled but spry, than aged.
For whatever its worth, I could only find one garland drawing from the 15th century, the garland is coincidentally in the form of a rosary, but it is from 1490. It has lilies on it too and says la vie eternelle.
Book of Hours
France, Paris, 1490-1500
MS M.7 fol. 44r
Not sure how they go with the fountains, is it the fountain of youth?
Anyway I will go with my own take for now, the matches would need to be far more convincing for me to think of it as the ages of man.