"An exceptional book, sensible, illuminating and readable...probably the best straightforward account of Bosch and his works which we shall have for some time."―Times Literary Supplement No one can look at the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch without amazement and bewilderment. Professor Gibson shows that what seems inexplicable to us today―the canvases full of torture, monsters, and leering devils―was perfectly intelligible to the fifteenth-century viewer. 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, placing each work within the context of medieval folklore and religion, and explains that many of the acts portrayed in the pictures were visual translations of verbal puns or metaphors.

Hieronymus Bosch

Reference

Bosch, Hieronymus

Catalogs & Directories

Thames and Hudson

Traces the life of the artist, analyzes his works, and explains the historical and social context of his painting

Bosch: Master of the Grotesque--His Life in Paintings

Arts & Photography

Devitini Dufour, Alessia

History & Criticism

DK Pub.

Hieronymus Bosch (Great art of the ages)

Individual Artists

H.N. Abrams

Bosch (Every painting)

Rizzoli

Bosch

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Spurbooks

Hieronymus Bosch: Garden of Earthly Delights

Hans Belting avoids interpreting Hieronymus Bosch's triptych, The Garden of Earthly Delights, as a heretical masterpiece, a personal examination of the church's dogmas, or as an opulent illustration of the Creation. Instead, he sees the panels as a painted Utopia, reflecting the zeitgeist of the period. He links the work to the humanist theories of Thomas More and Willibald Pirckheimer and examines the question that Bosch posed: "What would the world have been like without the Fall?" In addition, the author determines the secular patron and analyses the intended purpose of the painting.

Belting, Hans

Prestel Pub

Renowned as the world's largest art museum, the Prado houses sculptures, drawings, coins and metalwork, but it is certainly its incomparable collection of paintings that has drawn fame worldwide. Included in its store of more than 8,600 paintings are works by members of the Italian, Flemish, Spanish, French, Dutch and German schools. Durer, van Dyck, Correggio, El Greco, Goya, Hieronymous Bosch, Jose de Ribera, Cranach, Poussin, Brueghel, Rafael, Rembrandt, van der Weyden, Rubens, Botticelli, Tiepolo, Tintoretto, Tiziano, Velazquez and nearly every other master painter from the twelfth to the twentieth century. This book is a great primer for the greatest of art museums.

The Prado Museum

De Goya, Francisco

Velazquez, Diego De

POLÍGRAFA

To accompany a major exhibition at the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum in Amsterdam, 20 scholars and specialists on the early Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch have been invited to contribute essays to this publication. Intended to cater to both a general interest readership and to art historians and researchers, the book places an emphasis on significant new scholarship, thus retaining its value amid diverse and evolving perceptions of Bosch and his work. Hieronymus Bosch was unique in creating works of symbolic fantasy using rich forms and colors in a way that makes him the ancestor, 500 years earlier, to the Surrealist painters of the early twentieth century. This volume will help make his work accessible to a wide range of readers, and will considerably advance the scholarship.

Hieronymus Bosch: New Insights into His Life & Work

Aikema, Bernard

Jansen, Hans

nai010 publishers/Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

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