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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Published in:	Sign Systems Studies Vol. 38; no. 1-4; pp. 210 - 242
Main Authors:	Melnikova-Grigorjeva, Jelena, Bogdanova, Olga
Format:	Article
Published:	University of Tartu 2010
Subjects:	Symbolism in art Semiotics Mythology Communication Shamans Culture Bosch, Hieronymus, ca. 1450-1516 Gombrich, E. H. (Ernst Hans), 1909-2001
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