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Iconology of the Wayfarer Triptych – Detail

Location of Visual Attribute
Interior Panels of the Wayfarer Triptych
#108
Nun playing the lute from Ship of Fools

Ironically, these instruments tend to occur in images with angelic musicians in 15th-century Flemish paintings, presumably as prestige instruments associated with (heavenly) court life, in contrast to the more vulgar bagpipes and other peasant instruments. [Winternitz, 1967, 66-85, 129-149; Hammerstein, 1962; Brant, 1944, 186.] (p.647, note 19)

Silver, 2001
God in the Details: Bosch and Judgment(s)

Keywords
Category
Reasoning, judgement and intelligence,Morality and immorality,Literary and mythical characters and objects
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)
Iconographical description Informativeness Notions,Concepts Second world (Mind)
Reference Source(s)
Brant, 1944; Hammerstein, 1962; Winternitz, 1967
Symbolic Text

If bagpipes you enjoy and prize // And harps and lutes you would despise, // You ride a fool’s sled, are unwise [Brant, 1944, 186]