# Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung: Romance of the Rose [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, Flemish]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Manuscript \(Harley Ms. 4425\), 395 x 290 mm ## Commentary Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung: Romance of the Rose 1490s Manuscript \(Harley Ms. 4425\), 395 x 290 mm British Library, London This manuscript contains an old French allegorical romance in verses on love, written in two parts by two different authors active independently of each other and at different periods. The authors are Guillaume de Lorris \(c. 1200-c. 1240\) and Jean de Meung \(c. 1240-1305\). From the end of the 13th century the Romance of the Rose had remained one of the most popular themes of miniature painting for over two hundred years. Approximately 500 illustrated manuscripts survive. One of the finest is the copy in the British Library whose miniatures have recently been ascribed to the Master of Engelbert of Nassau who is identified by some scholars with the Master of Mary of Burgundy. The courtly scenes, such as on folio 14v shown here, populated with gracious youthful figures in highly fashionable clothing and carefully curled hairstyles, recall similar motifs in paintings of Hans Memling. ## Related artworks - [Apocalypse]() - [Boccaccio: Des cas des ruynes des nobles hommes et femmes]() - [Boethius: De consolatione philosophiae]() - [Book of Hours \(La Flora\)]() - [Book of Hours \(La Flora\)]() - [Book of Hours of Isabella of Castile]() - [Book of Hours of Isabella of Castile]() - [Book of Hours of Marie of Gueldern]() - [Book of Hours of Marie of Gueldern]() - [Book of Hours]() - [Book of Hours]() - [Book of Hours]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()