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Iconology of the Wayfarer Triptych – Detail

Location of Visual Attribute
Interior Panels of the Wayfarer Triptych
#298
Man with knife on tree mast from Ship of Fools

…dressed in red and holding a knife in one hand, is scaling the main mast in order to cut down a trussed and plucked chicken: a symbol of Gluttony. (p. 191)

Fischer, 2016
Jheronimus Bosch

Keywords
Category
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 interpretation Relevance (Iconographical) Interpretations,Narratives Second world (Mind)
Reference Source(s)
Symbolic Content