Hieronymus Bosch
Harry N. Abrams | 1989 | ISBN: 0810907194 | English | 136 pages | PDF | 30 MB

Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1453-1516) was one of the rare artists who introduce a new vision to the history of his medium. His phantasmagoric images of Heaven and Hell were conjured out of the visions and myths that swirled and howled in the minds of many Christians poised between the Middle Ages and the Reformation in Northern Europe. These same images seem to have a special relevance to our own century, which has elevated the painter to that pantheon of heroes w ho faced unflinchingly the human condition. For not only do Bosch's tormented demons prefigure the discovery of the unconscious with its demonic forces, but his portrayal of the destructive power of machines proved a prophesy of our own dilemmas. As a painter who broke down and stepped outside of the established boundaries of his art, he is one of a handful of precursors of the art of our time, with its emphasis on originality of expression