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Iconology of the Wayfarer Triptych – Detail
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Boat with ten people onboard from Ship of Fools
Numerous moralizing and literary texts testify to this new ethic, in both the Low Countries and the regions adjoining them. The best known of these is Sebastian Brant’s Narrenschiff [Brant, 1944; Brant, 1962], to which we have already referred. Many art historians have linked Bosch’s panel in the Louvre with Brant’s book, chiefly noting the formal similarities – most notably, the fact that both feature a ship crewed by fools. Bosch scholarship has not, however, considered the actual content of Brant’s text, or the significance of the word ‘fool’. (p. 143)
Hieronymus Bosch. The Complete Paintings and Drawings
Keywords
Category
Literary and mythical characters and objects
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)
Brant, 1944; Brant, 1962
Symbolic Content

