Be tyránorum crudelitate · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Be tyránorum crudelitate
Subject: Bread; Sword; Guard; Beard
Period: 1500-1550;
Geographic: Basel (Switzerland)
Description: Two men, presumably royal guards, hold the arms of a man holding a box full of bread. One of the guardsmen has a sword. An older with a beard man who is holding a pole faces the man with the bread.
Image Creator: Sebastiani Brant (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Wood Engraving
Identifier: mta:28537
Language: lat
Source Name: Esopi Appologi siue Mythologi cum quibusdam carminum et fabularum additionibus
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_28537_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Aesop's Fables
Subject: Bread; Sword; Guard; Beard