MINIATURIST, German
(active 1470s)

Sexual license in a public bath

c. 1470
Manuscript (MS. Reld 2)
Staatliche Museen, Berlin

Folio 244 of this 15th-century German codex contains the miniature showing a public bath. In the later Middle Ages realistic scenes in bath-houses, which often functioned as brothels, provided opportunities for erotic invention, but they are more satirical than pornographic.