Ship of Fools (painting)

The Ship of Fools

Artist	Hieronymus Bosch
Year	1490-1500
Type	Oil on wood
Dimensions	58 cm × 33 cm (22.8 in × 13.0 in)
Location	Louvre, Paris

Ship of Fools (painted c. 1490–1500) is a painting by Hieronymus Bosch exemplifying the human condition. It dates from c. 1490-1500 and is now on display in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. The painting is dense in symbolism and is indebted to, if not actually satirical of Albrecht Dürer's frontispiece^[1] of Sebastian Brant's book of the same name.

The surviving painting is a fragment of a triptych that was cut into several parts. The Ship of Fools was painted on one of the wings of the altarpiece, and is about two thirds of its original length. The bottom third of the panel belongs to Yale University Art Gallery and is exhibited under the title Allegory of Gluttony. The wing on the other side, which has more or less retained its full length, is the Death and the Miser, now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. The two panels together would have represented the two extremes of prodigiality and miserliness, condemning and caricaturing both.

Reconstruction of the triptych.

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↑ "Stultifera Navis woodcuts". University of Houston. Retrieved 2011-09-17.

Hieronymus Bosch

Paintings	Adoration of the Child Adoration of the Magi (New York) Adoration of the Magi (Philadelphia) Allegory of Gluttony and Lust Ascent of the Blessed Christ Carrying the Cross (Vienna) Christ Carrying the Cross (Ghent) Christ Carrying the Cross (Madrid) Christ Child with a Walking Frame Christ Crowned with Thorns (El Escorial) Christ Crowned with Thorns (London) Concert in the Egg The Conjurer The Crucifixion of St Julia Crucifixion with a Donor Cutting the Stone Death and the Miser Death of the Reprobate Ecce Homo (Bosch, 1470s) Ecce Homo (Bosch, 1490s) Adoration of the Magi (The Epiphany) Fall of the Damned into Hell The Garden of Earthly Delights The Haywain Triptych Head of a Halberdier Head of a Woman Hell The Hermit Saints The Last Judgment The Last Judgment, Bruges (with workshop) The Last Judgment (fragment) The Marriage Feast at Cana Paradise and Hell The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things Ship of Fools Saint Christopher Carrying the Christ Child St. Jerome at Prayer St. John the Evangelist on Patmos St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness Triptych of the Temptation of St. Anthony The Temptation of St Anthony Terrestrial Paradise Two Male Heads The Wayfarer

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