Description: Delicious 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 The Last Judgement and The Garden of Earthly Delights.
Brief description:
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.
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