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"An exceptional book, sensible, illuminating and readable...probably the best straightforward account of Bosch and his works which we shall have for some time."―Times Literary Supplement
No one can look at the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch without amazement and bewilderment. Professor Gibson shows that what seems inexplicable to us today―the canvases full of torture, monsters, and leering devils―was perfectly intelligible to the fifteenth-century viewer. The subjects of Bosch's paintings were in fact the overwhelming concerns of late medieval Europe: the Last Judgment, original sin, death, temptations of the flesh. The author describes each picture in detail, placing each work within the context of medieval folklore and religion, and explains that many of the acts portrayed in the pictures were visual translations of verbal puns or metaphors."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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- PublisherThames and Hudson
- Publication date1972
- ISBN 10 0500090777
- ISBN 13 9780500090770
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages136
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Hieronymus Bosch / text by Carl Linfert; [translated from the German by Robert Erich Wolf]
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Book Description First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 136 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 34 cm. Bibl.p.136. Subject: Bosch, Hieronymus. 2 Kg. Seller Inventory # 299541
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Hieronymus Bosch / text by Carl Linfert; [translated from the German by Robert Erich Wolf]
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Bosch. With 111 Reproductions including 48 Hand-Mounted Colour Plates.
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