![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The concept of foolishness was a frequently used trope in the pre-Reformation period to legitimate criticism, as also used by Erasmus in his In Praise of Folly and Martin Luther in his Address to the Christian Nobility. The Ship of Fools was inspired by a frequent motif in medieval art and Literature, and particularly in religious satire, due to a pun on the Latin word "navis", which means a boat and also the Nave of a church. Here he conceives Saint Grobian, whom he imagines to be the patron saint of vulgar and coarse people. Brant here lashes with unsparing vigour the weaknesses and vices of his time. Much of the work was critical of the current state of the Church. In a series of 114 brief satires, illustrated with woodcuts, it is notable for including the first commissioned work by the great Renaissance artist-engraver Albrecht Dürer. Ship of Fools (Modern German: Das Narrenschiff, Latin: Stultifera Navis, original medieval German title: Daß Narrenschyff ad Narragoniam) is a satire published 1494 in Basel, Switzerland, by Sebastian Brant, a conservative German theologian. Kunstformen der Natur (1904) by Ernst Haeckel ![]()
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