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Iconology of the Wayfarer Triptych – Detail
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Boat with ten people onboard from Ship of Fools
More depictions of fools were used in imagery, such as Bosch’s Ship of Fools, which, just like Concert in an egg [Follower of Jheronimus Bosch, ca. 1561], is a vilifying presentation of foolish behaviour, an allegorical scene that satirizes the gluttony of the clergy and rejects exuberance. It was a popular subject at around ,1550-60, of which Hieronymus Cock’s engraving of Musicians in a mussel shell [van der Heyden, 1562] is also an example. (p. 370)
Follwer of Jheronimus Bosch: Concert in an egg.
Keywords
Category
Christianity and the Church,Reasoning, judgement and intelligence,Morality and immorality,Intention, will and state of being
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)
Follower of Jheronimus Bosch, ca. 1561; van der Heyden, 1562
Symbolic Images
- Follower of Jheronimus Bosch (ca. 1561). Concert in the egg [Oil on canvas]. Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, France. P.816.
- van der Heyden, P. (1562). Merrymakers in a Mussel Shell [Engraving on paper]. Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam.



