Hieronymus Bosch The Complete Works Hardcover Box Set Taschen Foldout See Desc

  

Welcome to California Chic Boutique and More. This Hieronymus Bosch The Complete Works Hardcover is NEW - Factory Sealed. The shrink wrap and box have some shelf wear. Please See Our Enlarged Photos For Quality & Condition Viewing. In the midst of the realist-leaning artistic climate of the Late Gothic and Early Renaissance, Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch c. Bosch's paintings are populated with grotesque scenes of fantastical creatures succumbing to all manner of human desire, fantasy, and angst. One of his greatest inventions was to take the figural and scenic representations known as drolleries, which use the monstrous and the grotesque to illustrate sin and evil, and to transfer them from the marginalia of illuminated manuscripts into large-format panel paintings. Alongside traditional hybrids of man and beast, such as centaurs, and mythological creatures such as unicorns, devils, dragons, and griffins, we also encounter countless mixed creatures freely invented by the artist.

Whose real name was Jheronimus van Aken? Was widely copied and imitated: the number of surviving works by Bosch's followers exceeds the master's own production by more than tenfold. Today only 20 paintings and eight drawings are confidently assigned to Bosch's oeuvre.

Discover Bosch's pictorial inventions in splendid reproductions with copious details and a huge fold-out spread, over 110 cm 43 in. Long, of The Garden of Earthly Delights. Art historian and acknowledged Bosch expert Stefan Fischer examines just what it was about Bosch and his painting that proved so immensely influential. This may be the first time for many of us to actually see Bosch. Bosch's paintings require close-up textual study. With these pages, there's no guard to shoo you back or announce closing time.. Instead of pushing to the front of a close-packed crowd and briefly peering, you can study the mind-bending visions of this medieval master at your leisure. This big impressive book showcases in vivid colors the drolleries he devised, which were traditionally shown only at the margins of the medieval manuscripts.

Surely the most lavishly produced monograph ever published on the artist. Stefan Fischer studied art history, history, and classical archaeology in Münster, Amsterdam, and Bonn.

In 2009 he completed his doctoral thesis Hieronymus Bosch: Malerei als Vision, Lehrbild und Kunstwerk. His specialist fields are Netherlandish painting of the 15th to the 17th centuries and museology. If you have any questions, please ask us - we welcome questions and will happily respond a. Thank You For Viewing Our Listing.

the Complete Works