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Iconology of the Wayfarer Triptych – Detail

Location of Visual Attribute
Interior Panels of the Wayfarer Triptych
#847
Hanging pancake from Ship of Fools

The pancake, with its rich egg basis, was in particular a feanired treat during Carnival week, and is displayed behind another fat figure seated on a barrel, the personification of Carnival in Pieter Bruegel’s Combat between Carnival and Lent [Bruegel, 1559 (The Fight between Carnival and Lent; Silver, 2006, 410:note 17; Stone-Ferrier, 1983; Bloemaert, After 1635; de Mooij, 1992, 82, no. 4, 111, no. 48; Bolswert, ca. 1610-1620]. Indeed, one of the posthumous engravings ascribed to “Hieronymus Bosch” by the publisher Hieronymus Cock and engraved by Pieter van der Heyden [ van der Heyden, 1567] features an inn setting for Carnival, in which the tradition of “shaving the fool” is accompanied by the making of waffles at the hearth [de Mooij, 1992, 118, no. 55]. (p. 250)

Silver, 2006
Hieronymus Bosch

Keywords
Category
Social life, culture and activities,Society and social classes
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 interpretation Relevance (Iconographical) Interpretations,Narratives Second world (Mind)
Reference Source(s)
Bloemaert, After 1635; Bolswert, ca. 1610-1620; Bruegel, 1559 (The Fight between Carnival and Lent); de Mooij, 1992; Stone-Ferrier, 1983; van der Heyden, 1567
Symbolic Images