BoschPhaidon Press, 2003 - 351 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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... poverty and descriptions of the poor abound in every medium of historical writing in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries . Examples include the anonymous Mirror of Vagrants ( Speculum cerretanorum ) and Johannes von ...
... Poverty in the Baroncelli Chapel , Santa Croce , Florence ( 45 ) , which demonstrates striking affinities with Bosch's Wayfarers . Common to both is the image of a man carrying a walking stick , looking over his shoulder in fear and ...
... poverty must , like Christ himself , expect to be reviled and abandoned by the rest of the world . To choose the path of voluntary poverty was to follow Christ in the strictest sense , as he urged in the ' Beatitudes ' ( ' Blessed are ...
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