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Iconology of the Wayfarer Triptych – Detail
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Boat with ten people onboard from Ship of Fools
Be that as it may, the entire picture is a riddle composed of ordinary everyday acts and gestures, and its source is not, as one might expect, Sebastian Brant’s satirical novel with the same title but a Netherlandish poem from 1413 [Brant, 1944; Brant, 1962]. (p. 66)
Hieronymus Bosch
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

