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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... described in 1560 by the Spanish nobleman Felipe de Guevara in his Commentary on Painting ( Commentarios de la pintura ) . Guevara compared the work , particularly the scene of ' envy ' , to an ancient Greek form of painting known as ...
... described himself as ' the living bread , which came down from heaven ... and the bread that I will give , is my flesh , for the life of the world ' ( John 6 : 51-2 ) . Deguilleville's Pilgrimage of the Life of Man expands the link ...
... described and pictured in the Garden of Health . Among them is an aqueous unicorn ( 144 ) , like the one swimming in Bosch's pool . Next to it is a flying fish , described in the book as having ' wings on its back wherewith he flyeth ...
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