Hieronymus Bosch - The wold of art library with 151 Plates 26 in Colur (Artits)Walter S. Gibson
Taschenbuch
No one can look at the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch without amazement and bewilderment. What made the artist fill his canvases with such scenes of torture, such monsters, such leering devils? Why does a sence of misery and foreboding pervade all his works? Professor Gibson provides an answer by taking an historical approach to the question, arguing that what seems inexplicable to us in the twentieth century was quite intelligible to people living in the fifteenth. The subjects of Bosch`s paintings were in fact the overwhelming concers of late medieval Europe: the Last Judgment, original sin, death, temptations of the flesh. The autor describes each picture in detail, explaining how the complicated dymbolim can be understood by reference to medieval fol-lore and religion. He also ponts out that many of the acts portrayed in the pictures were visual translations of verbal puns or metaphors. Equipped with the autor`s book, the reader can look at the pictures as Bosch`s contemporaies would have done, and thereby appreciate both the full force of their visual imagery and the extent of Bosch`s genius in transforming traditional themes and motifs.
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