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Iconology of the Wayfarer Triptych – Detail

Location of Visual Attribute
Interior Panels of the Wayfarer Triptych
#134
Nun playing the lute from Ship of Fools

Surrounded by a shipload of grotesque characters plainly the worse for drink, they sit face to face, singing lustily to the sound of a lute (which at the time had erotic associations). (p. 31)

Delevoy, 1960
Bosch

Keywords
Category
Reasoning, judgement and intelligence,Morality and immorality
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 Thoughts Assumptions Second world (Mind)
Reference Source(s)
Symbolic Content