[Infinite Pain] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Infinite Pain]
Subject: Nests; Aesop's Fables; Vultures in art; Birds of prey in art; Nature
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Ancient Greece
Description: A vulture-like bird bound to a branch either feeds or feeds on a brood of young birds while another smaller bird watches and chirps at the large bird. Branches overlap and extend in the background towards the top, bending around the birds.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:28215;local: 99981
Language: lat
Source Name: Accii Zuchi summa campaneae Veronensis viri, eruditissimi, in Aesopi fabulas interpretatio per rhythmos in libellum zucharinum inscriptum contexta foeliciter incipit.
Parent Collection: I - Accii Zuchi. Illustrations by Anonymous. (1479); I - Accii Zuchi. Illustrations by Anonymous. (1479)
Collection: Aesop's Fables
Subject: Nests; Aesop's Fables; Vultures in art; Birds of prey in art; Nature