BOSCH

DIXON, LAURINDA

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ISBN:978-0-7148-3974-5
EAN:9780714839745
Editorial: PHAIDON
Fecha de la edición:2003
Colección: ART & IDEAS
Encuadernación:CARTONE
Nº Pág.:352
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/ ARTE Y CIENCIAS SOCIALES / ARTE MODERNO: SIGLOS XIV-XVIII

Hieronymus Bosch (c.1450 - 1516), one of the major artists of the Northern Renaissance, had a seemingly inexhaustible imagination. Known as the creator of disturbing demons and spectacular hellscapes, he also painted the Garden of Earthly Delights, where gleeful naked youths feast on giant strawberries. Little is known of Boschs life and his art has remained enigmatic, variously interpreted as the hallucinations of a madman or the secret language of a heretical sect. The Surrealists claimed Bosch as a predecessor, seeing in his work the imagery of dream, fantasy and the subconscious. Laurinda Dixon argues, however, that to understand and appreciate Boschs art, we must return to the era in which he lived. Dixon presents Bosch as an artist of his times, knowledgeable about the latest techniques of painting, active in the religious life of his community and conversant with the scientific developments of his day. She draws on popular culture, religious texts and contemporary medicine, astrology, astronomy and chemistry especially alchemy, now discounted but then of interest to serious thinkers to investigate the meaning of Boschs art.