MINIATURIST, Italian
(active 1490s in southern Italy)

Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics

1490s
Manuscript (Codex Phil. Gr. 4), 420 x 285 mm (folio size)
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna

The picture shows a marginal illustration of the miniature on folio 72r. It depicts envoys of a foreign city arriving in the harbour. The scene is perhaps an allusion to the harmony and political friendship that may reign between cities and states as referred to by Aristotle in his treatise.