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HardCover. Pages: 320 Publisher: Waanders BV. Uitgeverij Hieronymus Bosch's 'Garden of Earthly Delights' is one of the most enigmatic paintings in the history of western art. Apart from a ief description by an eyewitness in 1517. there are no contemporary records that tell us anything about the original commission of the painting. its placement. function or audience. Reindert Falkenburg now offers a detailed analysis of Bosch's eye-and mind boggling play with pictorial traditions. He argues that the painting was created towards the end of the fifteenth century as a conversation piece for an audience of Burgundian nobles. He suggests that the Garden of Earthly Delights served as a multifaceted mirror for viewers to reflect on how humanity. while created in the image and likeness of God. in the course of history has lost its original identity and tends towards becoming one wit...
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Reindert Falkenburg studies the visual arts primarily from the perspective of image/viewer relationships. His scholarly interest regard works by 16th-century Dutch and Flemish masters, such as Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel. Professor Falkenburg currently works as Dean of Humanities & Arts at NYU Abu Dhabi. He served as chair of the Art History Department at Leiden University in The Netherlands and previous to that was Professor of Western Art and Religion at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, Deputy Director of the Netherlands Institute for Art History and Research Fellow of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences.
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De Tuin der lusten van Bosch is ongetwijfeld het bekentste werk van deze Zuid-Nederlandse schilder. Hierin presenteert hij in zijn mysterieuze beeldtaal scenes uit zowel het aardsche paradijs als uit de hel, bevolkt door fantasiewezens en demonen.
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- PublisherWaanders BV, Uitgeverij
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 9040077673
- ISBN 13 9789040077678
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages320
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