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Iconology of the Wayfarer Triptych – Detail
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Boat with ten people onboard from Ship of Fools
Directly below the mast sit a monk and a nun facing each other across a hanging central pancake. They sing a duet that she accompanies on the lute, as they sit at a table plank with a drinking cup and plate full of cherries. Of course, these attributes of music and buffet normally are prerogatives of nobles and certainly not the behavior associated with monastic asceticism, let alone the courtship displayed between these ecclesiastics of opposite sexes. (p. 248)
Hieronymus Bosch
Keywords
Category
Social life, culture and activities,Christianity and the Church,Society and social classes
Interpretation Type
| InfoSensorium Facet(Sum, 2022) | |||
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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 | Thoughts | Assumptions | Second world (Mind) |
Reference Source(s)
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Symbolic Content

