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Iconology of the Wayfarer Triptych – Detail
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Boat with ten people onboard from Ship of Fools
The close relationship that existed between Hieronymus Bosch and Alart Duhameel is also plain from all manner of details in Duhameel’s prints, such as the fool with the spoon in his hat sitting below a fountain [du Hameel, ca. 1478-1506, “The lovers with a fool by a fountain”]. This figure clearly belongs to the same margins of society as the fool with his stick and cap in the Ship of Fools (Louvre), who, keeping himself apart from the merrymakers, sips from his drinking vessel, and the ‘punished’ fool in the Tabletop of the Seven Deadly Sins (Prado}, whose behind is beaten with a large spoon [Bosch, ca. 1505-1510, “Death, from The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things”]. (p. 14)
Hieronymus Bosch. The Complete Paintings and Drawings
Keywords
Category
Reasoning, judgement and intelligence,Society and social classes
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)
Bosch, ca. 1505-1510; du Hameel, ca. 1478-1506
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