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Iconology of the Wayfarer Triptych – Detail
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Jester from Ship of Fools
… at its foot sits a fool in motley, wim me characteristic fearures of this costume: ass’s ears on a cowl as well as a fool’s speaking-stick, or marot [Vandenbroeck, 1987 (Beeld van de andere, vertoog over het zelf), 40-62; Vandenbroeck, 2002, 27-36; Swain, 1932; Welsford, 1935; Lefebvre, 1968; Silver, 1984, 126-127, 140-160]. (p. 245-248)
Hieronymus Bosch
Keywords
Fool;
Category
Reasoning, judgement and intelligence
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)
Lefebvre, 1968; Silver, 1984; Swain, 1932; Vandenbroeck, 1987 (Beeld van de andere, vertoog over het zelf); Vandenbroeck, 2002; Welsford, 1935
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