Plate 12: Bertoldino whipping himself to kill flies, from "Bertoldo, Bertoldino, and Cacasenno"
Giuseppe Maria Crespi · Italian, 1665-1747
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Plate 12: Bertoldino whipping himself to kill flies, from "Bertoldo, Bertoldino, and Cacasenno", Giuseppe Maria Crespi (1705-15), The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Via artnap.com
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An etching shows a nude young boy holding a bundle of twigs and swatting at a swarm of flies in an open landscape beside a tall palm tree and a brick wall. A cloth hangs over the wall at right, and the caption beneath the image is written in Italian verse.
