De Miluo Et Matre.F.XX. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: De Miluo Et Matre.F.XX.
Subject: Fables; Kites; Birds; God; Hand; Pointing
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Itlay; Verona
Description: A mother bird has assumed an defensive posture in her nest which is sat atop of a tree on the right side of the image. The mother bird has an aggressive look, opposite the mother bird is another bird (kite) sat on a tree trunk they appear to be in dialogue. On the ground in the centre of the image there are two juvenile birds walking together. There is what appears to be a divine hand pointing at the mother bird from the sky, top left of the image.
Image Creator: Liberale da Verona (Illustrator); ()
Type: Text; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:28387
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)
Image: mta_28387_OBJ.jpg