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Hieronymus Bosch was painting frightening, yet vaguely likable monsters long before computer games were ever invented, often including a touch of humour. His works are assertive statements about the mental illness that befalls any man who abandons the teachings of Christ. With a life that spanned from 1450 to 1516, Bosch experienced the drama of the highly charged Renaissance and its wars of religion. Medieval tradition and values were crumbling, paving the way to thrust man into a new universe where faith lost some of its power and much of its magic. Bosch set out to warn doubters of the perils awaiting any and all who lost their faith in God. His favourite allegories were heaven, hell, and lust. He believed that everyone had to choose between one of two options: heaven or hell. Bosch brilliantly exploited the symbolism of a wide range of fruits and plants to lend sexual overtones to his themes, which author Virginia Pitts Rembert meticulously deciphers to provide readers with new insight into this fascinating artist and his works.
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Length1 hr 29 mins
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Publish dateJul 1, 2011
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Bosch Bosch
2Biography
3Birth of Hieronymus Van Aken in ‘s-Hertogenbosch (now Bois-le-Duc).
4Brotherhood of Our Lady.
5Millennium of Hieronymus Bosch: Outlines of
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6ca. 1470 Pen and bistre, 27.7 x 21.1 cm Albertina, Vienna
7of this enigmatic artist.
8assertion that the grand master of a cult of
9The Adoration of the Magi (detail)
10To the medieval mind, the man who could
11Italian writers of the High Renaissance period to
12Lomazzo, the author of the Treatise on the Art
13Christ Carrying the Cross
14Death and the Miser
15painter’s orthodoxy and fidelity to nature:
16Extracting the Stone of Madness
17ca. 1490 Oil on panel Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
18and a great observation, which he would not
19An interesting counter-reaction to that of the
20theorist of the artistic period between Mannerism
21Christ Mocked also called The Crowning with Thorns
22The Pedlar
23Brueghel, “discovered” Bosch.
24The Ship of Fools
25Allegory of Intemperance
26dates in the archives of the Brotherhood of Our
27Lady at ‘s-Hertogenbosch.
28Pen and bistre, 14 x 19.6 cm Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
29from Aachen, just over the Dutch-German
30In 1464, Laurent Van Aken, possibly the father of
31those of his disciples or copyists.
32Christ Carrying the Cross
33Again in this realm, one of the finest studies
34A Ruysbroek follower, Gerard Groote, had
35ca. 1500-1505 Oil on panel Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
36The work of de Tolnay, together with the
37literature or tradition, and that with enough study
38With the 1947 German edition and its
39all previous studies of Bosch’s work into question.
40groups - the generally traditional, obviously
41devotional patronage. The polar targets of their
42“dual warfare, with all its polar tension” and his
43the scholar, all previous interpretations of Bosch
44or by the Garden of Eden.”
45Homines Intelligentiae of Brussels, a radical
46Sisters of the Free (or High) Spirit in the belief that
47The Garden of Earthly Delights (exterior panels: The Creation of the World)
48rational, in fact brilliantly logical analysis, which
49The Hay-Wain (left panel: Paradise; central panel: Hay-Wain; right panel: Hell)
50an arbitrary starting point and then, through