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Iconology of the Wayfarer Triptych – Detail
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Boat with ten people onboard from Ship of Fools
The Ship of Fools in the Louvre has been rightly pointed out as an illustration to Sebastian Brant’s Narrenschiff, the Ship of Fools, and to the Dutch popular conception of The Blue Barge. It too may once have formed part of a series of deadly sins and have signified greed and gluttony. (pp. 33-34)
Hieronymus Bosch and the thinking of the late Middle Ages.
Keywords
Blue boat (Blauwe Schuit); Folly; Fool; Gluttony (Gula); Greed (Avarice or Avaritia); Ship of Fools (Narrenschiff); Sin;
Category
Literary and mythical characters and objects,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 | Informativeness | Notions,Concepts | Second world (Mind) |
Reference Source(s)
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Symbolic Content

