[The Ground Animals Against the Sky Animals] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [The Ground Animals Against the Sky Animals]
Subject: Lion; Cow; Horse; Fox; Bat; Goose; Eagle; Dragon
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Italy; Europe; Ancient Greece
Description: Only a fraction of the image is visible, as the rest has worn off with time. From what is visible, there is a combination of animals on the ground, all looking skywards. There is a lion, a cow, a wolf, and a horse. The horse is on its front legs, kicking back rocks towards the sky with its hind legs. All the animals on the ground have an angry expression to the sky. In the sky, there is a bat taking flight on the right side. In the upper right corner, a goose is looking down at the ground animals. The other sky animals are hard to determine, but from the claws visible at the left upper corner, it could either be an eagle or a dragon.
Image Creator: Accio Zucco (Translator);S. Conte Giulio Landi (Illustrator); Accio Zucco (Translator); S. Conte Giulio Landi (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Illustration
Identifier: mta:25966
Language: ita
Source Name: [The Ground Animals Against the Sky Animals]
Parent Collection: 1487 Italy Brescia; 1487 Italy Brescia
Image: mta_25966_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Aesop's Fables
Subject: Lion; Cow; Horse; Fox; Bat; Goose; Eagle; Dragon