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Iconology of the Wayfarer Triptych – Detail
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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)
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
- Badius, J. (1498). Navicula Stultarum Mulierumm (Frontispiece). Paris: Thielman Kerver.


