Abstract:The ragged man harried by a dog in two of Bosch's paintings, the exterior of the Haywain triptych and the Rotterdam tondo, is identified as a personification of Poverty. This identification is based o...The ragged man harried by a dog in two of Bosch's paintings, the exterior of the Haywain triptych and the Rotterdam tondo, is identified as a personification of Poverty. This identification is based on comparisons with figures of Poverty in 14th-century Italian Virtue cycles. Contemporary Franciscan texts may be their source. The Haywain exterior relates to the Franciscan concept of voluntary poverty, protection against the sin of avarice illustrated inside the triptych. The Rotterdam tondo includes details that suggest a second, contrasting, notion of poverty: deprivation, as one of the wages of sin.Read More
Publication Year: 1981
Publication Date: 1981-03-01
Language: en
Type: article
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