希罗尼穆师·博斯(Hieronymus Bosch),其真名为Jeroen van Aken,(1450--1516)文艺复兴时期荷兰画家。他是绘画世家的后代,多数的画作是在描绘罪恶与人类道德的沉沦。他的画作超乎人的想象,复杂多变,其中大量使用各种符号元素,有些作品让人晦涩难解。博斯被认为是20世纪的超现实主义的启发者之一。博斯存世的作品约有四十幅左右,但是除了七幅有署名以外,其他均年代不详。代表作品有《基督荷著十字架》《圣安东尼的诱惑》、《朝拜贤士》、《干草车》、《人间乐园》《荒野中的施洗者聖約翰》等。
斯特凡-菲舍尔在明斯特、阿姆斯特丹和波恩学习艺术史、历史和古典考古学。2009年,他完成了博士论文 "Hieronymus Bosch: Malerei als Vision, Lehrbild und Kunstwerk"。他的专业领域是15至17世纪的尼德兰绘画和博物馆学。
Renaissance Radical
In the midst of the realist-leaning artistic climate of the Late Gothic and Early Renaissance, Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450–1516) was more than an anomaly. Bosch’s paintings are populated with grotesque scenes of fantastical creatures succumbing to all manner of human desire, fantasy, and angst. One of his greatest inventions was to take the figural and scenic representations known as drolleries, which use the monstrous and the grotesque to illustrate sin and evil, and to transfer them from the marginalia of illuminated manuscripts into large-format panel paintings. Alongside traditional hybrids of man and beast, such as centaurs, and mythological creatures such as unicorns, devils, dragons, and griffins, we also encounter countless mixed creatures freely invented by the artist. Many subsidiary scenes illustrate proverbs and figures of speech in common use in Bosch’s day. In his Temptation of St Anthony triptych, for example, the artist shows a messenger devil wearing ice skates, evoking the popular expression that the world was “skating on ice”―meaning it had gone astray. In his pictorial translation of proverbs, in particular, Bosch was very much an innovator.
Bosch―whose real name was Jheronimus van Aken―was widely copied and imitated: the number of surviving works by Bosch’s followers exceeds the master’s own production by more than tenfold. Today only 20 paintings and eight drawings are confidently assigned to Bosch’s oeuvre. He continues to be seen as a visionary, a portrayer of dreams and nightmares, and the painter par excellence of hell and its demons.Featuring brand new photography of recently restored paintings, this exhaustive book, published in view of the upcoming 500th anniversary of Bosch’s death, covers the artist’s complete works. Discover Bosch’s pictorial inventions in splendid reproductions with copious details and a huge fold-out spread, over 110 cm (43 in.) long, of The Garden of Earthly Delights. Art historian and acknowledged Bosch expert Stefan Fischer examines just what it was about Bosch and his painting that proved so immensely influential.
The author
Stefan Fischer studied art history, history, and classical archaeology in Münster, Amsterdam, and Bonn. In 2009 he completed his doctoral thesis “Hieronymus Bosch: Malerei als Vision, Lehrbild und Kunstwerk.” His specialist fields are Netherlandish painting of the 15th to the 17th centuries and museology.
Hieronymus Bosch. The Complete Works
Stefan Fischer
Hardcover with 2 fold-outs and ribbon bookmark, 29 x 39.5 cm, 300 pages, in cardboard box with handle ISBN 978-3-8365-2629-6
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