An owl and a mirror: On Bosch's visual motif's meaning.

Our main goal in this paper is to study one Hieronymus Bosch's iconographic motif, an owl, considering the iconography, production of meaning and connotations. Pursuant to the comparative analysis of the variants of the formal model we intend to ascertain the meaning of Bosch's "owl" motif. We suppl...

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Publicado en:Sign Systems Studies Vol. 38; no. 1-4; pp. 210 - 242
Autores principales: Melnikova-Grigorjeva, Jelena, Bogdanova, Olga
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Publicado: University of Tartu 2010
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          Melnikova-Grigorjeva, Jelena
          Bogdanova, Olga
        affil: Department of Semiotics, University of Tartu, Tiigi 78, 50410 Tartu, Estonia
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        Symbolism in art
        Semiotics
        Mythology
        Communication
        Shamans
        Culture
        Bosch, Hieronymus, ca. 1450-1516
        Gombrich, E. H. (Ernst Hans), 1909-2001
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