Hieronymus Bosch : Garden of earthly delights / Hans Belting.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Belting, Hans, author.

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Bosch, Hieronymus, -1516. Garden of delights.

Bosch, Hieronymus.

Garden of delights (Bosch, Hieronymus).

Bosch, Hieronymus, -1516?--Criticism and interpretation.

Bosch, Hieronymus, -1516?. Garden of earthly delights--Criticism and interpretation.

Local Subjects:

Bosch, Hieronymus, -1516?--Criticism and interpretation.

Bosch, Hieronymus, -1516?. Garden of earthly delights--Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

1 volume : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Garden of earthly delights

Place of Publication:

Munich : Prestel, [2016]

Summary:

"Hans Belting avoids interpreting Hieronymus Bosch's triptych, The Garden of Earthly Delights, as a heretical masterpiece, a personal examination of the church's dogmas, or as an opulent illustration of the Creation. Instead, he sees the panels as a painted Utopia, reflecting the zeitgeist of the period. He links the work to the humanist theories of Thomas More and Willibald Pirckheimer and examines the question that Bosch posed: "What would the world have been like without the Fall?" In addition, the author determines the secular patron and analyses the intended purpose of the painting."--Jacket.

Contents:

A tale of fascination

In a painted labyrinth of the gaze

The world before humankind

The world as earthly paradise

The world as hell

Another world

The artist and his hometown

In the Palais Nassau

A gap in the Bible

Cardinal Grimani's altarpiece

A new concept of art in dialogue with literature

Rival dreams of paradise

The isle of nowhere

Fiction and humanist portraiture: an excursus.

Notes:

This translation originally published: 2002.

Translated from the German.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783791382050

3791382055

OCLC:

946706033