Bosch - The complete paintings

The pictorial world of Hieronymus Bosch: The joys of heaven and the cruelly imaginative tortures of hell

Even his contemporaries found the work of the Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) difficult to 'decode'- and it still presents riddles to art historians today.

Although rooted in the Old Dutch tradition, Bosch developed a highly subjective, richly suggestive formal language. With a mixture of religious humility and satanic wit, he illustrated both the joys of heaven and the cruelly imaginative tortures of hell.

In his pictorial world teeming with surrealistic nightmares, the medieval imagination catches fire in a moment of final brilliance before succumbing to humanism and modern rationalism.

One of the most admired artists to emerge from the 1980s art boom

About the Series:
Every book in TASCHEN's Basic Art Series features:

a detailed chronological summary of the artist's life and work, covering the cultural and historical importance of the artist
approximately 100 color illustrations with explanatory captions
a concise biography

Facts

Bosch - The complete paintings

Bosing, Walter
Softcover, flaps 7.3 x 9.1 in., 96 pages, $ 9.99

ISBN: 978-3-8228-5856-1
Edition: English
Availability: Not in Stock

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"Dieser Band führt in sehr gutem Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis in die Bilderwelten des Hieronymus Bosch ein, mit präzisen Texten und guten Bildreproduktionen."
Lehrerbibliothek, München, Germany

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