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The ship of fools, 1549 German woodcut illustration for Brant's book. Benjamin Jowett's 1871 translation recounts the story as follows: . Imagine then a fleet or a ship in which there is a captain who is taller and stronger than any of the crew, but he is a little deaf and has a similar infirmity in sight, and his knowledge of navigation is not much better.
Ship of Fools (Modern German: Das Narrenschiff; Latin: Stultifera Navis; original medieval German title: Daß Narrenschyff ad Narragoniam) is a satirical allegory in German verse published in 1494 in Basel, Switzerland, by the humanist and theologian Sebastian Brant.
Ship of Fools (painted c. 1490–1500) is a painting by the Early Netherlandish artist Hieronymus Bosch, now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. Camille Benoit donated it in 1918. The Louvre restored it in 2015. The surviving painting is a fragment of a triptych that was cut into several parts.
English: Woodcut image from the Shyp Of Foles Of The Worlde, an English translation by Alexander Barclay of Das Narrenschiff by Sebastian Brant. Most of the images in the 1509 Ship of Fools are original to the 1494 Das Narrenschiff.
For years, whenever anyone has asked me for my advice about port excursions on a cruise, I have had the same advice: Don't pay for them. You can usually see a port more cheaply, quickly, and in ...
English: Woodcut image from the Shyp Of Foles Of The Worlde, an English translation by Alexander Barclay of Das Narrenschiff by Sebastian Brant. Most of the images in the 1509 Ship of Fools are original to the 1494 Das Narrenschiff.
This panel is the left inside bottom wing of a hinged triptych. The other identified parts are The Ship of Fools, which formed the upper left panel, and the Death and the Miser, which was the right panel; The Wayfarer was painted on the right panel rear. The central panel, if it existed, is unknown.
It's anyone's guess, but if the origin of April Fools' Day is any indication, the tradition dates as far back as the 1500s, which means there's something about pulling pranks that people seriously ...