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Iconology of the Wayfarer Triptych – Detail
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Boat with ten people onboard from Ship of Fools
Otto Benesch suggested that the Ship of Fools could have been part of a series of the Seven Deadly Sins and signify Gluttony [Benesch, 1957, 33-34]. His suggestion was supported by Adhémar’s analysis of the theme [Adhémar, 1962, 28-29], and has been echoed recently by A. P. de Mirimonde [Mirimonde, 1971, 34-35]. Cuttler interpreted the Ship of Fools as a moralizing satire on Gluttony, with Lust possibly a subtheme [Cuttler, 1969, 274-275]. (p. 300:note 30)
The Rest of Bosch’s Ship of Fools
Keywords
Category
Morality and immorality
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)
Adhémar, 1962; Benesch, 1957; Cuttler, 1969; de Mirimonde, 1971
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