Hieronymus Bosch
Subtitle: Garden Of Earthly Delights
Edition: 2Rev Ed edition
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
Published: April 28, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9783791333205
Subjects: Individual artists; Oils; Renaissance art; Individual Artist; Art Appreciation; Painting; Art; Art & Art Instruction; Netherlands; Criticism; European; Subjects & Themes - Religious; Bosch, Hieronymus,; Criticism and interpretation; Garden of delights; d. 1516; d. 1516.
Description: "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.