cow and wolf playing backgammon
First half of the 16th century.
It is an old painting that represents tension between Protestants and Catholics.
What is still visible is a spectacles wearing cow lying in front of a backgammon (in mediaval times Tric Trach) board. To the left of the board there appears the grey snout of a wolf, and behind it there's the fragmented figure of a man, dressed in red, using a sort of brush to chase away a fly from before the cow's eyes. According to the inscriptions they weren't playing just for fun. They had put up their skin as a stake! Another inscription identified the man in red as a furrier who, in the company of a now lost hunter, was eagerly awaiting the end of the game. The fly symbolise the greedy lawyers who take the winner's side at the right time ...
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