Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1450-1516 : between heaven and hell
by Walter Bosing, Hieronymus Bosch (Illustrator), Hieronymus Bosch
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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 show more 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: a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance a concise biography approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions show lessTags
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- Canonical title
- Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1450-1516 : between heaven and hell
- Original title
- Jeroen Bosch : tussen hemel & hel
- Alternate titles*
- Иероним Босх между раем и адом; Hieronymus Bosch : between heaven & hell; Jérôme Bosch : entre ciel et enfer; Hieronymus Bosch : Zwischen Himmel und Hölle
- Original publication date
- 1970
- People/Characters
- Hieronymus Bosch
- Important events
- 15th century (1400s); 16th century (1500s)
- First words
- The pictorial world of Hieronymus Bosch, so strange to the modern viewer, is best studied in the Museo del Prado in Madrid.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Bosch's art formulated a glorious statement of the "autumn of the Middle Ages" and at the same time—in some of its innovations—offered a glimmer of the coming epoch, the era of humanism at the dawn of the Renaissance.
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- Art & Design, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, History, Religion & Spirituality
- DDC/MDS
- 759.9492 — Arts & recreation Painting History, geographic treatment, biography Other geographic areas Europe Other parts Netherlands
- LCC
- ND653 .B65 .B575 — Fine Arts Painting Painting History
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