Hieronymus Bosch

northern-renaissance

Bosch Paintings 1450 - 1516 Northern Renaissance Painter

The Ship of Fools, 1490-1500

Oil on wood, 22 3/4 x 12 7/8 inches (58 x 33 cm)

Musee du Louvre, Paris

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OIL PAINTING: The Ship of Fools, 1490-1500
In The Ship of Fools " Bosch is imagining that the whole of mankind is voyaging through the seas of time on a ship, a small ship, that is representative of humanity. Sadly, every one of the representatives is a fool. This is how we live, says Bosch--we eat, dring, flirt, cheat, play silly games, pursue unattainable objectives. Meanwhile our ship drifts aimlessly and we never reach the harbour. The fools are not the irreligious, since promiment among them are a monk and a nun, but they are all those who live ``in stupidity''. Bosch laughs, and it is sad laugh. Which one of us does not sail in the wretched discomfort of the ship of human folly? Eccentric and secret genius that he was, Bosch not only moved the heart but scandalized it into full awareness. The sinister and monstrous things that Bosch brought forth are the hidden creatures of our inward self-love: he externalizes the ugliness within, and so his misshapen demons have an effect beyond curiosity. We feel a hateful kinship with them. "The Ship of Fools" by Bosch is not about other people, it is about us.