[The Four Peacocks and the Odd Pigeon] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [The Four Peacocks and the Odd Pigeon]
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Italy; Europe; Ancient Greece
Description: In a field, a group of four peacocks are surrounding what looks like a large crow or a pigeon. The tow peacocks on the right-hand side are looking down at the other bird with their heads bent towards it, one of them has some weeds in its mouth. The other two peacocks on the left-hand side, their heads remaining leveled, but their eyes on the other bird. One of those two peacocks is eating weeds as well. The other bird has weeds in its mouth as well.
Image Creator: Accio Zucco (Translator);S. Conte Giulio Landi (Illustrator); Accio Zucco (Translator); S. Conte Giulio Landi (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Illustration
Identifier: mta:25951
Language: ita
Source Name: [The Four Peacocks and the Odd Pigeon]
Parent Collection: 1487 Italy Brescia; 1487 Italy Brescia
Image: mta_25951_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Aesop's Fables
Subject: Peacocks; Pigeon; Field