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Die Legende vom verführten, bedrängten und gequälten Eremiten Antonius bot Künstlern seit dem späten Mittelalter reichen Stoff für phantastische Bilderwelten. Gezeigt werden rund 80 Gemälde, Zeichnungen und Radierungen vom Beginn des 15. Jahrhunderts, darunter Werke aus der Nachfolge von Hieronymus Bosch sowie von Paolo Veronese, Jan Bruegel d. J., Salvator Rosa, Lovis Corinth, James Ensor und Max Ernst. 150 color illustrations. ... Read more

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In this novella Jake Charles is having a rough week...in fact, a really rough reality. Ever since he accidently ingested belladonna from his drugged-out housemate Sid's bottle of hooch, Northern Missouri has not seemed the same with naiads, flying saucers, zombies, and a new girl Milan who changes her clothes, eyes, and hair color in the blink of an eye.Rooming with the intellectual outcasts of their small Missouri town, not far from Jesse and Frank James's old stomping grounds, Jake must deal with Belinda, the local nympho, who runs the Near-Reality clinic; Frank the token gay guy; Sid the druggie, but all around good guy; Shaheen the crazy Iranian who needs a green card to save himself from exportation and assassination; and John, Jake's crazed fellow professor who is willing to trade grades, or anything else, for sex.Only after Milan arrives to initiate her art lecture series on Hieronymus Bosch (the bizarre medieval painter, whose depictions of Hell scared more people into church than the black plague) does reality start to shift rampantly, and soon alien invasions, tornadoes, Martian war machines, and Western shoot-outs become as normal as...well...as normal as a Hieronymus Bosch reality. ... Read more

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This volume, one in a series of lavishly illustrated paperback books on major artists and their works, tells the story of Bosch. From a look at the artist's life and times, to the historical and social context in which he worked, to an analysis of his masterpieces, this is a vital visual resource with more than 300 superb full-color illustrations. The fact-based text is aimed at the general reader, and makes the series perfect for art-history students and art lovers of all ages. ... Read more

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Bosch is a Man of So Many Hidden Characteristics
We may never know much about him, as there are so few histories written about him. This is a great book for those who've never heard of him and for art enthusiasts wanting to expand their shelves on books about artists, but there's not much new and different biographical information about Bosch's like in it. The explanations of his works are phenomenal, however. ... Read more

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Definitive!
This magnificent (33 by 25 cm) 513 page book must be the most insightful, the most imaginative, the most comprehensive and the most lavishly illustrated scholarly work about Hieronimus (or Jeroen) Bosch available. And it will remain so for a long time to come, probably.
The layout is very clear. It begins with a short chapter on the known records about the family history and biography from 1462 until about 1575. After that there folows a description the catalogue of works attributed to Bosch and the methods with which we could come to a more difinitive list of the works that can be attributed unequivocally to him. After that comes a description of Bosch' schooling and the sources that we have to corroborate this. Folowing that there comes a very useful summary of all the different interpretations of Bosch' oeuvre, the whole Bosch-exegesis over the centuries, in a strictly chronological order from 'before 1563' until '1986' which is followed by a nice summing up - in an overarching view - of some of these different interpretations or methods of research by the author himself. Lastly, before really beginning his detailed description of all Bosch' works, the author - in 'A Trial of Interpretation' - shortly underpins his own method of interpretation in the chapters to follow, where he stresses the need for reserve and not to be wanting to try to 'lute all the gaps in our knowledge with guesses and hypotheses of our own fabrication'.
After these 'chapters', the book is devided into sections where all the different works are ordered into four types, namely 'Triptychs', 'Fragments of Triptychs', 'Independent Works (or Panels)' and 'Disputed Attributations'. These chapters all follow the same very clear and insightful method of interpretation. The author first of all starts each chapter with a short introduction and the goes on to a meticulous description and interpretation of all the works themselves. At the start of each of these chapters describing a particular work, there is a colour-reproduction of the complete work under scrutiny. He does this in the most erudite and insightful manner possible, giving a detailed description of the history of interpretation as well as firmly placing it within its o w n time and history. After this description there follows a beautiful array of full page details from the same work with very insightful quotes from books of that same age which describe in a way what we are seeing in that very same detail of Bosch' work. Or sometimes the author even gives a description of specific social, political, or economical situations of that time that one should know to be able to understand exactly what it is we see depicted.
All in all this is a book that is made with the highest care and love for and insight in the genius Jeroen Bosch' fantastic and colorful oeuvre. There is no other book about his works in which so many gorgeous detail is visible. The pages dedicated to page-wide details of the Garden of Earthly Delights alone spreads for 50 pages!
If you love Bosch' works, if you want to know everything that is to know about it and if you want to revel in its unique, colorful and imaginative beauty (for lack of the better alternative, which is to go and look at the paintings themselves, of course), you should try and find this book for yourself immediately! ... Read more

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MORE FOR A SCHOLAR THAN AN ART APPRECIATOR
Although truthfully described as 148 pages, this edition offers only about 40 prints. Over a third of them are left and right triptych sections, set two on a page. The matte or semi-gloss coating of the pages offer muted renditions of Bosch's work; there's a dimness felt, partly by the artist's bleak design, perhaps more-so by the printing process.

To the book's credit, the writing regarding the artist, his milleu and the art's analysis/context was direct, seemingly thorough and informative. So this book, the least expensive around, is well-worth the discount price. If you're looking for a more dramatic coffee-table book, look elsewhere. Most people are interested the Bosch for his weird little people. Or his Garden of Earthly Delights. But if you've got more scholarly needs, this book'll do just fine.

From the Book Jacket
The complex and extravagant imagery of Hieronymous Bosch (1450-1516) has earned him renown as one of the world's most fascinating artists.He made the struggle of human sin and fear of judgment tangible in a way that has never been surpassed.Bosch's master role is realized here in this complete and remarkable collection, and through Dr. Erik Larsen's unrelenting study of the artist, his work, and the continuing controversy surrounding the interpretations and dates of his paintings.

Bosch Premiers as one of the first of four titles in the Master artists Library series, the first collection to reproduce in dazzling color every painting by a featured artist.Each volume provides unsurpassed dimension through in depth analysis of the paintings and extensive artist biographies, as written by the world's leading art historians.The first four books-Vermeer, Bosch, Masaccio, and Dûrer-are only the beginning of a complete and magnificent library of the world's master artists.

Worth the Price
Erik Larsen's book on Bosch looks good on a coffee table and reads even better.

Nicely bound and a terrific summer read.

You posted reviews of the wrong book here.
When I looked at your reviews of the book on Hieronymous Bosch by Erik Larsen, I saw that they were really reviews of a children's book on the same subject by Gary Schwartz.

I think you should correct your site. ... Read more

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Using the still, small and sombre image of "Christ Mocked" by Bosch as a basis, this book works around the painting in five 'circles' to explore the political, scientific, psychological and devotional world of early modern Europe and its implications for us today.Unlike Bosch's better-known, fantastical, 'proto-surrealist' paintings, "Christ Mocked" is small, still and sombre, and yet, with a little effort of knowledge and interpretation, it reveals a depth of understanding of both the Passion, and of human nature, that speaks as much to the twenty-first century as it did to the sixteenth.By exploring the political, scientific, psychological and devotional world of early modern Europe, and applying those insights to our own time, the author shows how Bosch used his sophisticated artistic skills to convey a similarly sophisticated understanding of humanity. In "Christ Mocked" - a painting '500 years old but passionately modern' - "Christ's Passion" is so portrayed as to make us reassess the cosmic significance of Christ's death, and its profound implications for what we think it means to be human. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Hieronymus Bosch was an Early Netherlandish painter. His work is known for its use of fantastic imagery to illustrate moral and religious concepts and narratives. Hieronymus Bosch was born Hieronymus van Aken. He signed a number of his paintings as Bosch. The name derives from his birthplace, 's-Hertogenbosch, which is commonly called "Den Bosch". Little is known of Bosch's life or training. He left behind no letters or diaries, and what has been identified has been taken from brief references to him in the municipal records of 's-Hertogenbosch, and in the account books of the local order of the Brotherhood of Our Lady. Nothing is known of his personality or his thoughts on the meaning of his art. Bosch's date of birth has not been determined with certainty. It is estimated at c. 1450 on the basis of a hand drawn portrait (which may be a self-portrait) made shortly before his death in 1516. The drawing shows the artist at an advanced age, probably in his late sixties. ... Read more