De Ranis .PE. Regem .F.XXIII · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: De Ranis .PE. Regem .F.XXIII
Subject: Fables; Frogs; Kings; gods; Dragons; Ponds
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Itlay; Verona
Description: There are several frogs sitting around a pond looking up. They are looking at a dragon-like creature in the sky who is devouring a frog. There is a god-like figure it the top left corner of the image who seems to be commanding the dragon-like creature. Both the god-like figure and dragon-like creature are in the sky and surrounded by symbols and desings that imply supernatural status.
Image Creator: Liberale da Verona (Illustrator);(); Liberale da Verona (Illustrator); ()
Type: Text; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:28441
Language: lat
Source Name: Accii Zuchi ,... In Aesopi fabulas interpretatio per rhythmos in libellum Zucharinum inscriptum contexta...
Parent Collection: I - Accii Zuchi. Illustrations by Anonymous. (1479); I - Accii Zuchi. Illustrations by Anonymous. (1479)
Image: mta_28441_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Aesop's Fables
Subject: Fables; Frogs; Kings; gods; Dragons; Ponds