47 A. BOCZKOWSKA The Lunar Symbolism of The Ship of Fools by Hieronymus Bosch* UP to now no exhaustive explanation has been offered for all the ideas behind the painting known as The Ship of Fools (Paris, Louvre)!, two elements as yet unelucidated being the symbolism of the tree that forms the mast of the ship and that of the moon which appears in crescent form on the pennant hanging from the Localização. Museu do Louvre, Paris. O Navio dos Loucos ou A Nave dos Loucos ou, ainda, A Nau dos Insensatos é uma pintura do artista brabantino Hieronymus Bosch ( 1450 — 1516 ), executada em óleo sobre madeira, com 58 cmx 33 cm. Faz parte do acervo do Museu do Louvre, em Paris, onde chegou em 1918 e é exibida com o título de La Nef des The concept makes up the framework of the 15th-century book Ship of Fools (1494) by Sebastian Brant, which served as the inspiration for Hieronymus Bosch's painting, Ship of Fools: a ship—an entire fleet at first—sets off from Basel, bound for the Paradise of Fools. A phantasmagorical world teeming with bizarre animals, cavorting devils and macabre creations: this is the realm of Hieronymus Bosch, the Netherlandish artist who within his own lifetime became famous for his depictions of the supernatural, the grotesque and the absurd. His paintings were so unlike anything that had gone before that it has been Hieronymus Bosch, The ship of Fools, c. 1510-15. Oil on wood, 58 cm × 33 cm, Louvre, Paris. and if they did not, what the meaning of Bosch's and other artists' paintings might be. Paintings Ship of Fools c. 1500–1510 Oil on wood 58 × 33 cm Louvre, Paris, France Fragment of a lost triptych which also included Allegory of Gluttony and Lust (which is the lower part of the Ship of Fools wing) and Death and the Miser (the other outer wing). Allegory of Gluttony and Lust c. 1500–1510 Oil on wood 35.8 × 32 cm Ship of Fools (c.1490) Louvre, Paris. Youth. Bosch was born in Hertogenbosch, the capital of the Dutch province of Brabant. Little is known of his life, training or what he thought about his own art. His date of birth is only an estimate, based on a dated hand drawing, which may have been a self-portrait. hvJ4HS.