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| Keywords: people surreal Netherlandish (possibly Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostsanen) Date: ca 1500 Medium: Oil on wood Although presented as a conventional portrait, this man is identified as a court jester or fool by his yellow and orange costume with a coxcomb hood with ass's ears, tipped by bells. The open-mouthed, comical expression of the head on his scepter mimics the fool's spontaneous laughter as he reacts to our dysfunctional world, glimpsed through his splayed fingers (in the Flemish aphorism "iets door de vingers zien"). The oversized glasses ironically suggest that, despite such a visual aid, the fool is still incapable of seeing the truth. Photo taken at The Met, March 2016. Netherlandish (possibly Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostsanen) Date: ca 1500 Medium: Oil on wood Although presented as a conventional portrait, this man is identified as a court jester or fool by his yellow and orange costume with a coxcomb hood with ass's ears, tipped by bells. The open-mouthed, comical expression of the head on his scepter mimics the fool's spontaneous laughter as he reacts to our dysfunctional world, glimpsed through his splayed fingers (in the Flemish aphorism "iets door de vingers zien"). The oversized glasses ironically suggest that, despite such a visual aid, the fool is still incapable of seeing the truth. Photo taken at The Met, March 2016. | ||||
