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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... reflects , like a cosmic mirror , the pathetic condition of the human race . Guillaume Deguilleville's poem The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man ( Pèlerinage de la vie humaine ) , written c.1330 and published in a Dutch edition in 1486 ...
... reflecting the phases of their natal planet , which vacillate from crescent to full and back . The brain , a moist ... reflect Erasmus's criticism , made in the Praise of Folly , that ' The foolish change like the moon ' . All these ...
... reflects alchemical putrefaction , the stage characterized by fire , violence and death . Standard chemical synonyms for this stage include Saturn , melancholia , chaos , hell and the end of the world . Indeed , one imaginative chemical ...
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