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Iconology of the Wayfarer Triptych – Detail
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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)
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]

