''De Aetatibus Mundi Imagines'' is a literary and pictorial sketchbook. The author and illustrator of the manuscript was Francisco de Holanda (1517–84).

Description

It is a manuscript of 189 pages. There are brush, pen, pencil black, brown and brown ink, gouache and gold colors, on beige laid paper. The theme is the ages of the world, illustrated with scenes from the Christian Bible.

Analysis

Francisco de Holanda stayed in Rome, with the Portuguese ambassador, from 1538 until 1540. He was a friend of

Michelangelo Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (; 6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known as Michelangelo (), was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. Born in the Republic of Florence, his work was insp ...

. There were 3 codices, and the third survives.

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