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Iconology of the Wayfarer Triptych – Detail

Location of Visual Attribute

Interior Panels of the Wayfarer Triptych

#296

Two figures with a jug from Ship of Fools

Further left, a man dressed in red and another woman with her head covered are engaged in a light-hearted fight over two jugs, the one held by the woman seemingly empty, the one in the water full. (p. 191)

Fischer, 2016

Jheronimus Bosch

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Interpretation Type

InfoSensorium Facet (Sum, 2022)
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Layer of meaning (van Straten, 1994)	Conception of Information (Furner, 2004)	Level of knowledge (Nanetti, 2018)	View of reality (Popper, 1972, 1979; Gnoli, 2018)
Pre-iconographical description	Situations	Definitions	First world (Life, matter & form)

Reference Source(s)

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Symbolic Content

#194

Two figures with a jug from Ship of Fools

“De andere vrouwefiguur houd ik voor één… vanden minliken beghinen, die so heilich sijn van seinen, ende so minlic oechkijns draghen,… ende gaerne gueder minnen plien, ende in rechter caritae [Verwijs, 1871, 98:vs 135-141] (p. 147)”

Enklaar, 1933

De Blaue Schult

#211

Two figures with a jug from Ship of Fools

De andere vrouwefiguur houd ik voor één… vanden minliken beghinen, die so heilich sijn van seinen, ende so minlic oechkijns draghen,… ende gaerne gueder minnen plien, ende in rechter caritae [Verwijs, 1871, 98:vs 135-141] (p. 68)

Enklaar, 1937

Varende Luyden. Studiën over de middeleeuwsche groepen van onmaatschappelijken in de Nederlanden.

#22

Two figures with a jug from Ship of Fools

D’autre part, l’ivresse porte à la colère, ce qui permet d’interpréter le geste du personnage qui frappe le jeune garçon avec une cruche. (p.29)

Adhe_mar, 1962

Le Muse_e national du Louvre, Paris

#296

Two figures with a jug from Ship of Fools

Fischer, 2016

Jheronimus Bosch

#537

Two figures with a jug from Ship of Fools

Ira’ is also shown, in the detail of the woman threatening the man on the left. (p. 93)

Cinotti, 1966

The complete paintings of Bosch

#771

Two figures with a jug from Ship of Fools

A flask is placed beside the inscription in the foreground of the scene, and the gallant who sprawls on the skirts of the seated lady offers her a drinking cup. (p. 301:note 34)

Morganstern, 1984

The Rest of Bosch’s Ship of Fools

#853

Two figures with a jug from Ship of Fools

… a woman (identified by Cuttler as a beguine, or lay sister) assails a cowering man in the from of the boat with a drinking crock [Cuttler, 1969, 272] (pp. 250-252)

Silver, 2006

Hieronymus Bosch

#97

Two figures with a jug from Ship of Fools

Another characteristic of the phlegmatic character, irritation, is expressed in Bosch’s painting by the woman in the boat aiming with her jug at the man lying below her [Hildegarde, 1903, 19]. (p.63)

Boczkowska, 1971

The Lunar Symbolism of The Ship of Fools by Hieronymus Bosch