Antonio Ligabue

In the act of painting Ligabue prepared himself by identifying himself with each of the animals he would have represented, adapting his own body, otherwise awkward and deformed, to reproduce their movements, typical attitudes, flapping of wings, gnashing of jaws, jerks of paws, to attack, to defend himself, while he roared, howled, bellowed, chirped and made a thousand other verses, repeated obsessively.