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Iconology of the Wayfarer Triptych – Detail
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Boat with ten people onboard from Ship of Fools
The boat holds a group of merrymakers, who are happily joined by a monk and a nun (or beguine). Their open mouths and the lute suggest that they are singing. The barrel at the front of the boat indicates a plentiful supply of drink; a man reaches up with his knife to a roast fowl that is tied to the mast. The round thing hanging on a long rope is difficult to identify; it might be a (pan)cake or a loaf of bread. An owl sits in the branch placed on top of the mast. A much larger branch in the boat serves as a seat for a fool. (p. 298)
Hieronymus Bosch: The pilgrimage of life triptych
Keywords
Category
Social life, culture and activities
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) |
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Symbolic Content

