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Iconology of the Wayfarer Triptych – Detail

Location of Visual Attribute
Exterior of the Wayfarer Triptych
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Ladle on backpack from The Pedlar

In his Eulenspigel engraving of 1520 Lucas van Leyden also shows… a spoon like the one the Prodigal carries in his back pack-proof that the spoon is a symbol of vagabondage [van Leyden, 1520]. Bosch also uses the spoon with which the homeless man eats the soup he begs to convey a moral idea. In the common speech of his time the spoon symbolized wanton lovemaking. In his Spinnerin, the popular preacher Geiler von Kaisersberg derides “unclean love, like that of a spoon for a foolish woman” and “the spoon (who) sets his cap for the harlots and runs after them like the bull after the cow,” to say nothing of the extravagant spoon litany in Johannes Fischart’s Gargantua (Chapter 8) [von Kaysersberg, 1510; Fischart, 1969]. (p. 259)

Fraenger, 1999
Hieronymus Bosch

Keywords
Category
Morality and immorality,Society and social classes
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)
Iconological interpretation Relevance (Iconological) Interpretations,Narratives Third world (Culture)
Reference Source(s)
Fischart, 1969; van Leyden, 1520; von Kaysersberg, 1510
Symbolic Images