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Iconology of the Wayfarer Triptych – Detail
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Boat with ten people onboard from Ship of Fools
… the pendant of Death and the Usurer as a panel that was sawn in two – the Ship of Fools and the Allegory of Gluttony. Together, the two scenes must have constituted a satire of licentious merrymakers, in which Bosch attacked the opposite of avarice – the intoxication of prodigality. (p. 139)
Hieronymus Bosch. The Complete Paintings and Drawings
Keywords 
Entertainment; Folly; Indulgence; Jollification; Lascivious behavior; Morality; Prodigality; Profligacy; Sin;
			
Category
Social life, culture and activities,Reasoning, judgement and intelligence,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) | 
Reference Source(s) 
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Symbolic Content

