Hieronymus Bosch, C. 1450-1516: Between Heaven and HellTaschen, 2000 - 96 páginas From heaven to hell If Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) remains an enigma today, it is little wonder. Even his contemporaries found the Netherlandish painter's work difficult to decipher--and it still presents riddles to contemporary art historians. Part of the problem in analyzing his shocking and richly allegorical paintings is that virtually nothing is known of the artist himself, apart from his birthplace. There is no record of his life or training, no personal letters, diaries or notebooks, and no contemporary insights into his personality or his thoughts on the meaning of his art. Even his date of birth can only be guessed at, and that based on a drawing assumed to be a self-portrait, made shortly before his death in 1516, which supposedly shows the artist in his late sixties. Bosch remains as mysterious as the worlds he painted. Although rooted in the Old Netherlandish tradition, Bosch developed a highly subjective, richly suggestive formal language. With a mixture of religious humility and satanic wit, he illustrated both the joys of heaven and the cruelly imaginative tortures of hell. In his pictorial world teeming with surrealistic nightmares, the medieval imagination catches fire in a moment of final brilliance before succumbing to humanism and modern rationalism. Though the man himself remains a mystery, this book pulls together the elusive threads of Bosch's work into a cohesive and comprehensive analysis of his work and methods. About the Series: Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Art series features:
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Hieronymus Bosch, C. 1450-1516: Between Heaven and Hell Walter Bosing,Hieronymus Bosch Vista de fragmentos - 1987 |
Hieronymus Bosch, C. 1450-1516: Between Heaven and Hell Walter Bosing,Hieronymus Bosch Sin vista previa disponible - 1994 |
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Adamites Albrecht Dürer altarpiece angel appears artists Avarice background Bosch painted Bosch's art Bosch's day Bosch's death Brotherhood Carrying the Cross central panel Christ Carrying church cm Berlin cm Madrid cm Rotterdam cm Vienna contemporary damned demons depicted devils Dirk Bouts Dutch Earthly Delights Ecce Homo Epiphany Feast at Cana figure Flemish flesh foreground Fraenger Garden of Earthly Gilles Néret Grisaille Grisaille on panel Haywain head Heaven Hell Hermit Hieronymus Bosch Imitation of Christ inspired Kupferstichkabinett landscape Last Judgment LEFT WING Lisbon lovers Lust Magi mankind Marriage Feast medieval Middle Ages monsters Museo del Prado Museum Boymans-van Beuningen Oil on panel outer wings Paradise Pen and bistre picture pilgrim Prado Tabletop religious represented Robert Campin Rotterdam s-Hertogenbosch saints Seven Deadly Sins Ship of Fools sixteenth century soul spiritual St Anthony St John symbol tavern Temptation Thomas à Kempis torments traditional triptych triptych Oil Virgin vision