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Iconology of the Wayfarer Triptych – Detail
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Tree mast with owl from Ship of Fools
Demonts [Demonts, 1919, 1 ff.] interprets the maypole as the biblical tree of knowledge, and thinks he recognises a skull in the carnival mask that hangs from it. He links the work by Jodocus Badius [Josse Bade], Stultiferae naviculae seu scaphae fatuarum mulierum, circa sensus quinque exteriors fraude navigentiumn (1498). But here the symbolic tree is characterized as such by the snake and the proximity of Adam and Ever; Bosch, on the other hand, refrains from any biblical allusion. (p. 348)
Hieronymus Bosch
Keywords
Category
Morality and immorality,Aspects of time,Bible and biblical stories
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 interpretation | Relevance (Iconographical) | Interpretations,Narratives | Second world (Mind) |
Reference Source(s)
Demonts, 1919
Symbolic Content

