The Fountain of Youth: bathing and youthfulness (fourteenth-sixteenth century)
Christiane Klapisch‐Zuber
The myth of the fountain Youth, incorporating dream eternal life or youth, appears in late Middle ages and Renaissance frequent forms, whether frescoes castles aristocratic courts engravings destined for middling classes common people. religious reforms sixteenth century influenced moral content these images, just at time when collective bathing was developing significant ways.
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