{"product_id":"taschen-america-hieronymus-bosch-the-complete-works-english","title":"Hieronymus Bosch: The Complete Works by Stefan Fischer","description":"\u003cp\u003eDelicious demons, nightmare creatures, and atrocious angels; no painter has come close to the fantastical schemes of Hieronymus Bosch. This enormous publication presents his extraordinary works in suitable scale, showcasing both their compositional magnitude and cryptic details. Delve deep into the artist’s complete works, through fresh photographs of recently restored paintings and magnificent fold-out spreads of \u003cem\u003eThe Last Judgement\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Garden of Earthly Delights\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFantasy Art Renaissance style\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn earthly delight not to be missed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 \u003cem\u003eTemptation of St Anthony\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBosch, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeaturing photography of recently restored paintings, this exhaustive book was published in anticipation of the 500th anniversary of Bosch’s death and covers the artist’s complete works. Bosch’s pictorial inventions are presented in splendid reproductions with copious details and a huge fold-out spread, over 110 cm (43 in.) long, of \u003cem\u003eThe Garden of Earthly Delights\u003c\/em\u003e. Art historian and acknowledged Bosch expert Stefan Fischer examines just what it was about Bosch and his painting that proved so immensely influential.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStefan 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hieronymus Bosch. The Complete Works\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Stefan Fischer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardcover with 2 fold-outs and ribbon bookmark\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 11.4 × 15.6 in\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePackaging:\u003c\/strong\u003e Cardboard box with handle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-3-8365-2629-6\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TASCHEN America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67675829797149,"sku":"TASCHEN-BOSCH-COMPLETEWORKS-9783836526296","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0738\/1195\/1901\/files\/60ee84ae5ae9fd2df8574cdebce4edd3e1b9d1bef413f4a0284b4c7e963879fa.png?v=1791176024","url":"https:\/\/space-camp.com\/products\/taschen-america-hieronymus-bosch-the-complete-works-english","provider":"Space Camp","version":"1.0","type":"link"}