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Item Number: 111640
Title: The Land of Unlikeness : HIERONYMUS BOSCH : The Garden of Earthly Delights
Author: Falkenburg, Reindert
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9789040077678
Description: Zwolle: W Books, 2011. 24cm., hardcover, 320pp., 150 illus., many in color. English text. Summary: Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights is one of the most enigmatic paintings in the history of western art. In this painting Bosch presents us both scenes from the Earthly Paradise as from hell, where creatures, witches and demons live. This painting is without a doubt the best known work of Hieronymus. But apart from a brief description by an eyewitness in 1517, there are no contemporary records that tell us anything about the original commission of the painting, its placement, function, or audience. This study aims at reconstructing the historical viewership of the Garden of Earthly Delights, using the painting itself as a major source of information. Its formal structure and phantasmal shapes are treated as key to our understanding of its original function. The author offers a detailed analysis of Bosch’s eye- and mindboggling play with pictorial traditions, conventions of courtly love, late-medieval morality, religious tenets, mnemonic devices, and literary figures. (Studies in Netherlandish Art and Cultural History, X)
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