Re: Here is a Game of "Prints"
Posted: 11 Jun 2009, 10:34
Looks to me like a sceptre, broken in half, the 'vertical' hanging shaft of the sceptre has a cross shape atop it.debra wrote:It looks like the Emperor/King is pouring a vial of water onto the wheel (waterwheel?) the Pope is standing on.
Ah... I thought the pope was holding it, but I think you are right, it is hanging from the Emperor's neck. Pope Pius II wrote some satyrical poems about his 'mean treatment' at the court of the Emperor - being fed on hard black bread or something like that (referenced by the purse round the neck of the 'miserly' emperor?), can't remember the details exactly...Is that moneybag hanging from around the King's neck, or the waist of the Pope?
It looks higher on the left than the right, suggesting it is anchored in high waves... Not sure whether it is a ship of state, or ship of salvation, or ship of fool, or...And...it looks like there's water running into the left side of the boat.
The text appears to be 'demeo austrie' ~ descend austria? ?