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Iconology of the Wayfarer Triptych – Detail

Location of Visual Attribute
Interior Panels of the Wayfarer Triptych
#842
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)

Silver, 2006
Hieronymus Bosch

Keywords
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
Symbolic Content