> >Owls crop up quite often in the works of Hieronymus Bosch, particularly his
> drawings, where they are sometimes related to "folk sayings"...
>
> >I am not a believer in the premise that animals *always* have symbolic
> significance. If one believed that, some hilarious analyses could be
> made of current children's cartoons.
>
> wellyeahbut, OtoH, the idea that *any*thing in an J. Bosch painting is there
> by "accident" is a bit hard to swallow.
Dear Christopher,
Undoubtedly owls had a meaning, however esoteric, in Bosch`s works,
but that is not necessarily true of musical owls decorating an
English country house, which were the subject of the original
enquiry.
Cheers,
Jim Bugslag
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