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Iconology of the Wayfarer Triptych – Detail
A related kind of scene, that is, a boating party without monks, allows a closer approach to the Louvre painting. Another manuscript from Bruges, roughly contemporaneous with that just discussed, contains a different boating scene. This appears in the lower margin of the Visitation scene in an horae in the Musee Conde, Chantilly [Meurgey, 1930, No. 79, p,. CXII]. Youthful couples are seen in the boat, and branches as well. A similar scene is found in another horae, attributed in part to the Master of the Dresden Prayerbook, which was sold from the Dyson Perrins Collection at Sotheby’s in 1958. In the calendar illustration for the month of May young couples are making music in a boat on a canal. A boating party as the May calendar illustration became popular in Bruges horae. The Chantilly May miniature shows a pair of lovers seated on the ground, but apparently it was made (seemingly it dates from the early 1480’s) before the boating scene became canonical for May illustrations in manuscripts from the Ghent-Bruges region. However, by the end of the first decade of the sixteenth century, a boating scene as the May calendar illustration is a constant in works from the shop of Simon Bening, Bruges’ leading illuminator. The scene is found in a closely related group of sumptuous manuscripts: the Breviary in the Musee Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp; the Golf Book in the British Museum, London (so called because one of its miniatures shows a golfing scene); the Hennessy Hours in the Bibliotheque Royale, Brussels; and the Da Costa Hours, Morgan Library, New York [Gaspar, 1932, pl. v.]. These manuscripts have been attributed to Simon Bening or Gerard Horenbout, or to the two artists in collaboration [Wescher, 1946, 198], and their May calendar scenes depict a musical boating party with one or more polers, male and female music-makers (usually flutists and lutenists), and leafy boughs in the boat. The Morgan Library manuscript illumination even shows a bottle hung over the side of the boat to keep its contents cool, as in Bosch’s painting. (p.273)
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| Layer of meaning(van Straten, 1994) | Conception of Information(Furner, 2004) | Level of knowledge(Nanetti, 2018) | View of reality(Popper, 1972, 1979; Gnoli, 2018) |
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