Be phebo auaro et inuido · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Be phebo auaro et inuido
Period: 1500-1550;
Geographic: Basel (Switzerland)
Description: There is a man lying down on the ground on the left side of the image. One of his eyes is bleeding. There is a man on top of him sticking a device in his left eye. In the centre of the image, there is a standing man with blood coming out of his right eye, talking to a king with a crown and a sceptre
Image Creator: Sebastian Brant (Creator)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:28900
Language: lat
Parent Collection: 1501 (Latin); 1501 (Latin)
Image: mta_28900_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Aesop's Fables
Subject: Knives; Kings; Blood