Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all - oneself. Nobody knows his own frontiers… I don’t think I’d ever want to take a road if I knew where it led.

Louis Kahan
Sebastian Brant: The Ship of Fools Stultifera Navis, Latin translation by James Locher Strasbourg: Johann Gruninger, 1497 Title ex Bibliotheca Gymnasii Altonani
oldbookillustrations: The unyversall shyp of crafty men, or laborers. From The Ship of Fools vol. 2, by S. Brant translated by A. Barclay, London, 1874. Via archive.org.
The Ship of Fools(work) The “crazy about books” (Bëchernarr) In a Strasbourg edition of 1510. The Follies (Narren das schiff) Is a German book written by the Strasbourg Sebastian Brant at the end of XVecentury. [Cette oeuvre fut souvent rééditée, traduite dans de nombreuses langues, continuée, contrefaite et a été utilisée par plusieurs prédicateurs alsaciens dont Jean Geiler de Kaisersberg (Navicula penitentie) et Thomas Murner. Elle inspira Jérôme Bosch et Erasme pour son Eloge de la Folie.]
Hieronymous Bosch The Ship of Fools. Year 1490-1500 Type Oil on wood Dimensions 58 cm × 33 cm (22.8 in × 13.0 in) Location Louvre, Paris http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jheronimus_Bosch_011.jpg
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