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Iconology of the Wayfarer Triptych – Detail
The motif of the ship of the pleasure-seekers was a very familiar one in the Flanders of the fifteenth century [Enklaar, 1933; Bax, 1949]: the blue boat, laden with a libertine party, was celebrated as early as 1413 in Jacob van Oestvoren’s poem De Blauwe Scuut [van Oestvoren, 1413]; it used to appear in the carnival parades of Brabant. and gave its name to a brotherhood found in several Dutch towns, devoted to feasting and merrymaking [Enklaar, 1933]. But Bosch’s boat is not painted blue. Moreover, Sebastian Brant’s satirical poem Narrenschiff was published in German and in Latin in 1494 [Brant, 1944; Brant, 1962]; the 1498 edition contains many engravings, in no way related. however, to Bosch’s painting, as claimed by Demonts and Combe [Demonts, 1919; Combe, 1946]; the highest expression of the theme is found in Erasmus Praise of Folly [Erasmus, 1913]. The connection with Brant’s work (Demonts), accepted at one point also by Tolnay [de Tolnay, 1937], would provide a date post quem, but the types of the friar, of the nun and of other characters appear to have been inspired by Oestvoren’s poem (Enklaar). (pp. 92-93)
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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) |
| Iconographical description | Informativeness | Notions,Concepts | Second world (Mind) |

