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Iconology of the Wayfarer Triptych – Detail
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Boat with ten people onboard from Ship of Fools
…the Paris-New Haven wing presents a consistent enactment of another deadly sin: luxuria, sensuous self-indulgence featuring lust and gluttony in combination. In some respects, this fleshly weakness can be seen as the same kind of product of prosperity that provoked the image of Death and the Usurer [Bosch, ca. 1485-1490]… Bosch exploring such lustful and gluttonous impulses in me central panel of his Garden of Earthly Delights [Bosch, ca. 1490-1500]… its giant fruits and sexually cavorting nudes display a more extreme form of the same behavior as Bosch represents in his Ship of Fools and Allegory of Gluttony wing. (p. 245)
Hieronymus Bosch
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)
Bosch, ca. 1485-1490; Bosch, ca. 1490-1500
Symbolic Images
- Bosch, J. (ca. 1485-1490). Death and the Miser [Oil on panel]. D.C.: National Gallery of Art. 1952.5.33.
- Bosch, J. (ca. 1490-1500). The Garden of Earthly Delights Triptych [Oil on panel]. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid.



