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Hieronymus Bosch Hardcover – October 1, 2006
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Four hundred little people frolic au naturel with overgrown songbirds and raspberries; a pudgy blue demon serenades a fashionable young couple with a tune piped through his own elongated nose; a knife-wielding set of disembodied ears stalks the
The phantasmagoric imagery of Hieronymus Bosch (d. 1516) has been the source of widespread interest ever since the painter’s lifetime, and is still so enigmatic that scholars have theorized that it contains hidden astrological, alchemical, or even heretical meanings. Yet none of these theories has ever seemed to provide an adequate understanding of Bosch’s work. Moreover, the considerable professional success that the artist enjoyed in his native Hertogenbosch, not to mention his membership in a traditional religious organization, suggests that he pursued not a sinister secret agenda but simply his personal artistic vision.
This intriguing new monograph by noted art historian Larry Silver interprets that artistic vision with admirable lucidity: it explains how Bosch’s understanding of human sin, morality, and punishment, which was conceived in an era of powerful apocalyptic expectation, shaped his dramatic visualizations of hell and of the temptations of even the most steadfast saints. Silver’s account of Bosch’s artistic development is one of the first to benefit from recent technical investigations of the paintings, as well as from the reexamination of the artist’s drawings in relation to his paintings.
Hieronymus Bosch is also unique in how securely it places its subject’s work in the broader history of painting in the Low Countries: Silver identifies sources of Bosch’s iconography in a wide range of fifteenth-century panel paintings, manuscript illuminations, and prints, and describes how, despite their own religiousness, Bosch’s pictures helped inspire the secular landscape and genre scenes of later Netherlandish painters. Augmented by 310 illustrations, most in color, including many dramatic close-ups of Bosch’s intricately imagined nightmare scenes, this is the definitive book on a perennially fascinating artist.
- Print length424 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherAbbeville Press
- Publication dateOctober 1, 2006
- Dimensions11.3 x 1.7 x 13.2 inches
- ISBN-100789209012
- ISBN-13978-0789209016
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― Art Times
"Every page proclaims high seriousness. This is the scholarly volume on the artist for our time."
― Arizona Daily Star
"Larry Silver, a professor of art history at the University of Pennsylvania, elucidates “The Garden of Earthly Delights” and the nightmarish circus it presents, as well as a host of Bosch’s other magnificent works. He draws upon new research into his subject’s cultural milieu, belief system and artistic intentions. His explications of the paintings and their influence on other artists, most notably Pieter Bruegel the Elder, contain many fresh insights. . . . Bosch has 310 illustrations, most in full and high quality color, a vast bibliography and index. It’s a big book and will well reward the many hours needed to digest it."
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- Publisher : Abbeville Press; 1st edition (October 1, 2006)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 424 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0789209012
- ISBN-13 : 978-0789209016
- Item Weight : 7.85 pounds
- Dimensions : 11.3 x 1.7 x 13.2 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #758,707 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #265 in Religious Arts & Photography
- #1,150 in Individual Artist Monographs
- #3,799 in Art History (Books)
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The other book by Mr. Larry Silver (the equally gorgeous Bruegel album) offers a similar feast for the eyes and mind.
oeuvre-this enigmatic Flemish master has set bar extremely high,& only Pieter Bruegel The Elder & perhaps Francisco Goya were able to expose real truth about human nature with almost equal depth and conviction-and today apocalyptic and sarcastic paintings of Hieronymus Bosch are as modern as ever...
This particular book about Hieronymus Bosch is arguably one of the best amongst countless attempts to capture elusive magic of this old Flemish painter, and spectacular quality of art reproduction can take you as close to the original painting as you can possibly get, so there is very little left between mesmerizing Revelations of Hieronymus Bosch and reader of "Hieronymus Bosch" by Larry Silver.
Otherwise, this book is great! The reproductions -many of them in detail- are amazing and the writing is rich. Great book.
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