Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1215 g
Hieronymus Bosch, <i>The Garden of Earthly Delights</i>
Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1215 g
Reihe: Studies in Netherlandish Art and Cultural History
ISBN: 978-90-400-7767-8
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers
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 with a world that is susceptible to an all-perverting force of evil origin. This debatable nature of Bosch's imagery is central to any engaged viewership, historical or modern.