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Iconology of the Wayfarer Triptych – Detail
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Boat with ten people onboard from Ship of Fools
Bosch may have borrowed the iconography of this painting from the woodcuts illustrating a work by Josse Bade, the Ship of Foolish Women, first printed in 1498, and evidently inspired by Brant’s Ship of Fools [Badius, 1498; Brant, 1494; “The Tree of Life”, 1502; Demonts, 1919, 1 ff.] (p. 24)
Jérome Bosch
Keywords
Category
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)
“The Tree of Life”, 1502; Badius, 1498; Brant, 1494; Demonts, 1919
Symbolic Images
- “The Tree of Life” (1502). In J. Badius. Stultiferae naviculae seu scaphe fatuarum multierum (fol. 9). Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich.


