Be leonis fallaci conuerfatione · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Be leonis fallaci conuerfatione
Subject: Man; Pottery; Lion; Monkey; Death; Tree; Nature
Period: 1500-1550;
Geographic: Basel (Switzerland)
Description: In front of a man who is holding a pot, a lion is attacking a monkey, biting it on the back. The man does not seem to be focusing on the lion and the monkey, but rather focusing on the pot that he holds above his head. The is a single, dying tree in the distance.
Image Creator: Sebastian Brant (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Illustration
Identifier: mta:28671
Language: lat
Parent Collection: L1 - Esopi Appologi siue Mythologi cum quibusdam carminum et fabularum additionibus. Illustrations by Sebastiani Brant. (1501); L1 - Esopi Appologi siue Mythologi cum quibusdam carminum et fabularum additionibus. Illustrations by Sebastiani Brant. (1501)
Image: mta_28671_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Aesop's Fables
Subject: Man; Pottery; Lion; Monkey; Death; Tree; Nature