Fortune’s Wheel

This is a thirteenth-century wall painting of the wheel of fortune from Rochester Cathedral. Lady Fortune controls the wheel in the centre. At the top the man is enjoying good fortune, the missing part of the painting would have depicted the man falling, and the man can then be seen gradually regaining his good fortune to once again reach the top. The wheel of fortune was sometimes portrayed as a king losing his crown and becoming a beggar, before attaining it once more.