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Iconology of the Wayfarer Triptych – Detail
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Ragged poor man from The Pedlar
The Pedlar does not have a Jewish physiognomy, but a number of features may allude to Judaism, such as the ostentatiously displayed money pouch (the attribute of Judas), the shoemaker’s awl in the hat (Ahasuerus was originally a cobbler) [Le Juif errant: un témoin du temps, 2001], and perhaps also the trotter, incongruously protruding from his waistcoat. It recalls miniatures showing Jews gnawing on a paw, here it is a lamb’s hoof, slaughtered in the kosher manner for Passah [The eating of the passover lamb, from Historia Scholastica, ca. 1450-1455; Calkins, 1978, 140]. The leg wound is significant since it represents moral reprobation. (pp. 40-41)
Bosch and the Jews
Keywords
Category
Christianity and the Church,Social conduct and emotions,Morality and immorality,Non-Christian religions
Interpretation Type
| InfoSensorium Facet(Sum, 2022) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| – | |||
| Layer of meaning(van Straten, 1994) | Conception of Information(Furner, 2004) | Level of knowledge(Nanetti, 2018) | View of reality(Popper, 1972, 1979; Gnoli, 2018) |
| Iconographical description | Informativeness | Notions,Concepts | Second world (Mind) |
Reference Source(s)
Calkins, 1978; Le Juif errant: un témoin du temps, 2001; Philip, 1953; The eating of the passover lamb, from Historia Scholastica, ca. 1450-1455
Symbolic Images
- The eating of the passover lamb, from Historia Scholastica. (ca. 1450-1455). Retrived from Bosch and the Jews (p. 41), by J. Hartau (2005)


