Hieronymus Bosch
No one can look at the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch without amazement and bewilderment. What made the artist fill his canvases with such scenes of torture, such monsters, such leering devils? Why does a sense of misery and foreboding pervade all his works? Professor Gibson shows that what seems inexplicable to us today was perfectly intelligible to the fifteenth-century viewers. The subjects of Bosch's paintings were in fact the overwhelming concerns of late medieval Europe: the Last Judgment,…
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- Full title :Hieronymus Bosch / Walter S. Gibson.
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No one can look at the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch without amazement and bewilderment. What made the artist fill his canvases with such scenes of torture, such monsters, such leering devils? Why does a sense of misery and foreboding pervade all his works? Professor Gibson shows that what seems inexplicable to us today was perfectly intelligible to the fifteenth-century viewers. The subjects of Bosch's paintings were in fact the overwhelming concerns of late medieval Europe: the Last Judgment, original sin, death, temptations of the flesh. The author describes each picture in detail, explaining how the complicated symbolism can be understood by reference to medieval folklore and religion. He also points out that many of the acts portrayed in the pictures were visual translations of verbal puns or metaphors. -- From publisher's description.
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- Publication Date:1985, ©1973.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Thames and Hudson
- Place of Publication:New York, N.Y
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1985, ©1973.
Notes
Reprint. Originally published: London : Thames and Hudson, 1973.
The Physical Object
- Description:180 pages : : illustrations (some color) ; : 21 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:050020134X, 9780500201343
- oclc:ocn956787856
- LC Classification:ND653.B65
- Dewey Decimal:759.9492
Table of Contents
Life and milieu -- Aritstic origins and early biblical scenes -- The mirror of man -- The Last Judgment -- The triumph of sin -- The pilgrimage of life -- The imitation of Christ -- The triumph of the saints -- Style and artistic heritage.
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