BoschPhaidon Press, 1 Σεπ 2003 - 352 σελίδες Hieronymus Bosch (c.1450-1516), one of the major artists of the Northern Renaissance, had a seemingly inexhaustible imagination. Known as the creator of disturbing demons and spectacular hellscapes, he also painted the Garden of Earthly Delights, where gleeful naked youths feast on giant strawberries. Little is known of Bosch's life and his art has remained enigmatic, variously interpreted as the hallucinations of a madman or the secret language of a heretical sect. The Surrealists claimed Bosch as a predecessor, seeing in his work the imagery of dream, fantasy and the subconscious. Laurinda Dixon argues, however, that to understand and appreciate the art of Bosch, we must return to the era in which he lived. Dixon presents Bosch as an artist of his times, knowledgeable about the latest techniques of painting, active in the religious life of his community and conversant with the scientific developments of his day. She draws on popular culture, religious texts and contemporary medicine, astrology, astronomy and alchemy - now discounted but then of interest to serious thinkers - in order to investigate the underlying meaning of Bosch's art. |
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... appears on the table before him ( 23 ) ? To answer these questions let us explore another possible level of meaning and read the work as the castigation of a particular kind of quack , the charlatan alchemist , who appears with ...
... appears in many popular treatises , among them Deguilleville's Pilgrimage of the Life of Man , where poverty takes the form of Impatient Poverty , who is miserable with his lot , and Willing Poverty , who declares , ' I despise all ...
... appear throughout Bosch's centre panel therefore suggest the union of opposites necessary for transmutation . The most ... appears in the Turba philosophorum as a thing that ' is raised aloft to the clouds , dwells in the air , is ...
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