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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... artists were traditionally assigned a relatively low status in late medieval society , so much so that most fifteenth - century painters did not even sign their works . Attitudes were , however , changing , and art historians view this ...
... Artists , 1550 ) and the Dutch painter Karel van Mander ( 1548-1606 ; author of Het Schilder - boeck or Book of Painters , 1604 ) , did artists ' biographies become appropriate reading for the literate public . However , these earliest ...
... artists . Dürer employed a similar device in his Christ Among the Doctors ( 65 ) and the sketches of Leonardo da Vinci ( 66 ) show a fascination with grotesque human features . The German late medieval tradition also emphasizes the ...
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