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Iconology of the Wayfarer Triptych – Detail
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Boat with ten people onboard from Ship of Fools
Death and the Usurer and the Ship of Fools focus on two extremes – miserliness and usury versus prodigality. Bosch rejects both, as he does in countless details of his hell and temptation scenes. (p. 133)
Hieronymus Bosch. The Complete Paintings and Drawings
Keywords
Category
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) |
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Symbolic Content

