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Iconology of the Wayfarer Triptych – Detail
Location of Visual Attribute
Exterior of the Wayfarer Triptych
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Sapling under the white swan flag from The Pedlar
Precisely in this place where “the theater considered as a moral institution” is reduced to the triviality of a moral privy, begins the catharsis, the cleansing of body and soul. For what has Bosch painted in this filthy corner? A sapling in full blossom standing quietly behind all the squalor. The old reprobate would only need to turn around-to make an about-face-to see the other side, to see something quite different. If he were to take a serious look at it, the purification and future cleanliness of his body and soul would be assured. Tannhäuser’s pilgrim staff sprouting in the most infamous corner of the Venusberg ! [Wagner, 1845] (p. 265)
Hieronymus Bosch
Keywords
Category
Scientific perspectives and methods,Human being and life
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 | Thoughts | Assumptions | Second world (Mind) |
Reference Source(s)
Wagner, 1845
Symbolic Content