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Iconology of the Wayfarer Triptych – Detail
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Boat with ten people onboard from Ship of Fools
Bax [Bax, 1948, 189-194] in 1948 rejected both the Demonts and Enklaar theories, preferring to see in the Louvre painting stereotypes emblematic of folly, intemperance, and debauchery, and buttressing his thesis with exhaustive references to popular Netherlandish literature.
Bosch and the Narrenschiff: a problem in relationships
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Interpretation Type
| InfoSensorium Facet(Sum, 2022) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Knowledge | |||
| Layer of meaning(van Straten, 1994) | Conception of Information(Furner, 2004) | Level of knowledge(Nanetti, 2018) | View of reality(Popper, 1972, 1979; Gnoli, 2018) |
| Iconological interpretation | Relevance (Iconological) | Interpretations,Narratives | |
Reference Source(s)
Bax, 1948, de Tolnay, 1965
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