[The Father Strikes His Son] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [The Father Strikes His Son]
Subject: Aesop's Fables; Flagellation; Punishment in art; Fathers and sons; Discipline of children
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Ancient Greece
Description: A father flagellates his bare son in front of a brick dwelling. The son, who is welted and injured, is writhing in pain while another man stands overtop looking down at the boy with crossed arms.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:28233;local: 99981
Language: lat
Source Name: Accii Zuchi summa campaneae Veronensis viri, eruditissimi, in Aesopi fabulas interpretatio per rhythmos in libellum zucharinum inscriptum contexta foeliciter incipit.
Parent Collection: I - Accii Zuchi. Illustrations by Anonymous. (1479); I - Accii Zuchi. Illustrations by Anonymous. (1479)
Collection: Aesop's Fables
Subject: Aesop's Fables; Flagellation; Punishment in art; Fathers and sons; Discipline of children