proposed triptych, revised

 May 20, 2012 update:
This doesn't make sense anymore now that the haywain triptychs are identified as studies for the tapestries etc.

(updated August 6, 2007)
For this version of the proposed reconstruction, The Miser, NGW, Ship of Fools, Louvre, and Allegory, New Haven are regarded as copies of larger lost originals. The change is based on iconography, scale, and style.
Outside: an image of poverty with a scene from the life of St. Martin (outside panels, The Haywain, Madrid, replacing the previous version's The Pedlar, Rotterdam)
Inside, left: St. Francis, suffering an illness as a teenager, from which he recovered (panel painting, The Death of the Miser, Washington, DC)
Inside, center: St. Clara continuing the work of St. Francis (lost panel painting, perhaps approximately copied in the tapestry shown here, The Haywain, Madrid)
Inside, right: an uncertain future since the allegory could represent either the marriage of Martin Luther and Katharina Von Bora in 1525 or innocent Franciscans and Poor Clares; possibly cut in half to separate the St. Martin’s Day barrel from the lute associated with Martin Luther (panel painting, The Ship of Fools, Paris, and panel painting, Allegory of Intemperance, New Haven)


Notes on the revised “new triptych” (click on links):

• scale: (1) Benjamin Binstock's "digital connoisseurship," (2) panels and tapestry
• previous studies of Bosch triptychs
• the dendrochronological analyses of The Pedlar (Rotterdam) , The Miser, The Ship of Fools, and Allegory of Intemperance
• transparent paint
• the theory that The Pedlar (Rotterdam) was formerly in two parts
  
• interpretations of The Pedlar, The Miser, the Haywain tapestry, the Haywain triptychs, The Ship of Fools, and Allegory of Intemperance
• previous reconstructions, including a previous suggestion that the center panel was a Haywain picture
• Haywain triptychs, Haywain paintings, and lost Haywain paintings
• the complete series of tapestries
• Franciscans in pictures by Hieronymus Bosch and imitators
• Luther and lute players

proposed triptych of sts francis and clara

May 20. 2012 update:
Not at all sure if the Rotterdam Pedlar or Wayfarer might be early Pieter Bruegel, the inside right and left might be Hieronymus Bosch, and the tapestry might be Pieter Coecke van Aelst and workshop making a hash of a Raphael workshop cartoon. The mixup from five years ago still shows that Franciscan art somehow stayed pretty consistent.
This reconstruction has been modified; see above.