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Iconology of the Wayfarer Triptych – Detail
Enklaar [Enklaar, 1956, 55f] has suggested that Bosch’s painting was inspired by Jacob van Oestvoren’s poem of 1413, De Blauwe Schuit (‘The Blue Boat’), which was composed in the form of a charter for a ‘Blue Boat’ Society, in which people of various social classes gathered together for the purpose of common recreation consisting of the organization of theatrical performances, music-making and dancing [Enklaar, 1956, 44-47] . In support of this hypothesis, Enklaar cites an engraving from the workshop of Hieronymus Cock, which was in all probability executed after a missing work by Bosch [Enklaar, 1956, 84f; van der Heyden, 1559] . It depicts a boat with the inscription, Blauwe Schuit and figures of music-makers like those in The Ship of Fools. (p.47)
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| Iconographical interpretation | Relevance (Iconological) | Interpretations,Narratives | Second world (Mind) |
- van der Heyden, P. (1559). Die blau Schuyte [Engraving on paper]. Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts.


