Schieten naar vaders naked man hangs with an arrow in his stomach to his arms tied in a tree. For him there is a man who makes his bow to shoot a second arrow. In the background, watching figures for a castle, one of them wipes his tears away with his cape. The print shows an epidosis from a story from the 'Gesta Romanorum' (Chapter 15), a Latin collection stories and anecdotes from the 14th century. Two sons of a deceased king are fighting for the succession. A judge decides on the case by binding the deceased prince to a tree. The son closest to his father's heart is won and will be t
Schieten naar vaders naked man hangs with an arrow in his stomach to his arms tied in a tree. For him there is a man who makes his bow to shoot a second arrow. In the background, watching figures for a castle, one of them wipes his tears away with his cape. The print shows an epidosis from a story from the 'Gesta Romanorum' (Chapter 15), a Latin collection stories and anecdotes from the 14th century. Two sons of a deceased king are fighting for the succession. A judge decides on the case by binding the deceased prince to a tree. The son closest to his father's heart is won and will be the throne successor.
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