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Iconology of the Wayfarer Triptych – Detail
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Boat with ten people onboard from Ship of Fools
Folly herself describes human weakness and stupidity with a delicate irony, often implying that folly, after all, is the natural and note entirely undesirable conidtion of mankind. This tolerant approach is absent in the blunter, more caustic verses of the Ship of Fools. For Brant [Brant, 1944; Brant, 1962], folly is not amusing, but equated with sin and punished in Hell, a harsher attitude which also characterizes Bosch’s castigation of the loose morals of monks and nuns. (p. 44)
Hieronymus Bosch
Keywords
Category
Christianity and the Church,Reasoning, judgement and intelligence,Morality and immorality,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 interpretation | Relevance (Iconographical) | Interpretations,Narratives | Second world (Mind) |
Reference Source(s)
Brant, 1944; Brant, 1962
Symbolic Content

