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Iconology of the Wayfarer Triptych – Detail
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Boat with ten people onboard from Ship of Fools
The fool – unconcerned about important things and occupied only with what is worthless – has no goal, just as the ship of fools has no destination, other than ruin or aimlessness. Bosch’s Ship of Fools is similarly adrift, ‘without cares, reason, wisdom or sense’, while elsewhere the artist frequently used the motif of a sinking ship, with or without a broken mast. (p. 145)
Hieronymus Bosch. The Complete Paintings and Drawings
Keywords
Category
Reasoning, judgement and intelligence,Intention, will and state of being
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 | Thoughts | Assumptions | Second world (Mind) |
Reference Source(s)
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Symbolic Content

