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Iconology of the Wayfarer Triptych – Detail

Location of Visual Attribute
Interior Panels of the Wayfarer Triptych
#150
Jester from Ship of Fools

He again makes use of a crescent-bearing oriflamme, and the motley fool, perched on a spar with his cap, bells and bauble, is the twin brother of the mariners in Josse Bade’s work [Badius, 1498]. Each of the subsequent prints represents the folly of one or other senses and it has been suggested [Demonts, 1919, 1 ff] that Bosch, adopting this idea, depicted here the follies of ear and taste, and that the panel might well be one of the wings of a triptych illustrating the topic to a finish. (pp. 24-25)

Combe, 1957
Jérome Bosch

Keywords
Category
Reasoning, judgement and intelligence,Morality and immorality,Literary and mythical characters and objects
Interpretation Type
InfoSensorium Facet
(Sum, 2022)
Knowledge
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)
Badius, 1498; Demonts, 1919
Symbolic Images