Author: BOSCH, HIERONYMUS. Falkenburg, Reindert.
Title: The land of unlikeness. Hieronymus Bosch, the garden of earthly delights.
Description: [Leiden], Brill, [2011]. 320 pp. 241 iil (chiefly col.). Orig. softover (pictorial wrappers). 8vo. (Studies in Netherlandish Art and Cultural History, Volume: 10). [ISBN: 978-90-04-53680-7]. - New copy.Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights is one of the most enigmatic paintings in the history of Western art. Apart from a brief description by an eyewitness in 1517, there are no contemporary documents that tell us anything about the painting's original commission, placement, function, or audience. In this volume, Reindert Falkenburg offers a detailed analysis of Bosch's dazzling and bewildering play on pictorial traditions. He argues that the painting was created towards the end of the fifteenth century as a conversation piece for an audience of Burgundian nobles. He suggests that The Garden of Earthly Delights served as a multifaceted mirror for viewers to reflect on how humanity, though created in the image and likeness of God, has lost its original identity over the course of history and is tending toward merging with a world susceptible to an all-perverting force of evil origin. This contested nature of Bosch's imagery is of crucial importance to any engaged audience, historical or modern. - Text in English. New price from the publisher € 79,57

Keywords: Dutch Art 15th century 16th century Restanten / Brill Nederlandse kunst 15e eeuw 16e eeuw Restanten / Brill