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Iconology of the Wayfarer Triptych – Detail
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Ragged poor man from The Pedlar
He has been called, among other things, the Prodigal Son [Glück, 190, 177ff.; de Tolnay, 1966, 369], the Wayfarer [Baldass, 1943, 232], a fool [Combe, 1946, 78], a peddler [Seligmann, 1953, 104; Renger, 1969, 66-67; Tuttle, 1981, 88:note 6; Mollat, 1966, 17; de Tolnay, 1966, 179], Saturn [Pigler, 1950, 132-136], a personification of melancholy [Philip, 1958, 115-132], a man endangered by the sin of sloth [Zupnick, 1981, 1-81], a drunkard [Bax 1949, 222-230; Bax, 1962, 1-14], and Everyman, the Christian pilgrim [Gibson, 1973, 101-106]. (p. 88)
Bosch’s Image of Poverty
Keywords
Christ; Christianity; Drunkenness; Everyman; Fool; Melancholia; Parable of the Prodigal Son; Peddler; Pilgrimage; Sin; Sloth (Acedia); Wayfarer;
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) |
| Pre-iconographical description | Communication | Gamut | Third world (Culture) |
Reference Source(s)
Baldass, 1943; Bax, 1949; Combe, 1946; de Tolnay, 1966; Gibson, 1973; Glück, 1904; Mollat, 1966; Philip, 1958; Pigler, 1950; Renger, 1969; Seligmann, 1953; Tuttle, 1981; Zupnick, 1968
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