Lot Essay
Both birds feature in S. Pietro Celestino admonishing the Bear
in the Church of S. Maria di Collemaggio at L'Aquila (Fr. Q. Salomone, Basilica di S. Maria di Collemaggio, L'Aquila, 1988, unpaginated, illustrated in colour) and the golden eagle alone in the Leopards with a fallen Stag in the Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck (T. Frimmel, Studien und Skizzen zur Gemäldekunde, III, 1918, pl.XXXIV)
in the Church of S. Maria di Collemaggio at L'Aquila (Fr. Q. Salomone, Basilica di S. Maria di Collemaggio, L'Aquila, 1988, unpaginated, illustrated in colour) and the golden eagle alone in the Leopards with a fallen Stag in the Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck (T. Frimmel, Studien und Skizzen zur Gemäldekunde, III, 1918, pl.XXXIV)