[The Birds and the Tower] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [The Birds and the Tower]
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Italy; Europe; Ancient Greece
Description: The entirety of the illustration is of a house with a tall tower. Behind that house are never-ending fields. Birds are perched on the trees in front of the house, and atop the tower. On the upper left corner is a flying bird, going in the direction of the tower’s rooftop.
Image Creator: Accio Zucco (Translator);S. Conte Giulio Landi (Illustrator); Accio Zucco (Translator); S. Conte Giulio Landi (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Illustration
Identifier: mta:25934
Language: ita
Source Name: [The Birds and the Tower]
Parent Collection: 1487 Italy Brescia; 1487 Italy Brescia
Image: mta_25934_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Aesop's Fables
Subject: Birds; Rooftop; House; Tower