Bosch, Hieronymus -1516

Hieronymus Bosch by Carl Linfert ( Book )
14 editions published between 1989 and 2003 in 3 languages and held by 927 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A collection of paintings by the Dutch artist is accompanied by a description of his life and analyses of his artistic style. Continuously in print for more than 20 years, Abrams' Masters of Art series has always been known for its exceptional quality and value. Now these classic volumes devoted to the lives and works of the world's great painters have been newly redesigned and released in paperback for the first time. The comprehensive texts, written by distinguished art historians, provide incisive and informative portraits of the artists and perceptive commentaries on their works and achievements. Each book features 40 full-page, full-color plates accompanied by commentary on the facing page. Numerous black-and-white illustrations supplement the text

Hieronymus Bosch, Garden of earthly delights by Hans Belting ( Book )
13 editions published between 2002 and 2012 in English and held by 859 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Hans Belting avoids interpreting Hieronymus Bosch's triptych, The Garden of Earthly Delights, as a heretical masterpiece, a personal examination of the church's dogmas, or as an opulent illustration of the Creation. Instead, he sees the panels as a painted Utopia, reflecting the zeitgeist of the period. He links the work to the humanist theories of Thomas More and Willibald Pirckheimer and examines the question that Bosch posed: "What would the world have been like without the Fall?" In addition, the author determines the secular patron and analyses the intended purpose of the painting."--BOOK JACKET

Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1450-1516 : between heaven and hell by Walter Bosing ( Book )
11 editions published between 1987 and 2010 in English and German and held by 530 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Included in this book are approximately 100 color illustrations with explanatory captions, a concise biography and a detailed chronological summary of Hieronymus Bosch

Hieronymus Bosch by Larry Silver ( Book )
3 editions published in 2006 in English and German and held by 526 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Augmented by 310 illustrations, most in color, including many close-up details of Bosch's intricately imagined nightmare scenes, Larry Silver's Hieronymus Bosch is the definitive book on a perennially fascinating artist."--BOOK JACKET

The Garden of earthly delights by Hieronymus Bosch ( Book )
11 editions published between 1979 and 2004 in 3 languages and held by 506 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The complete paintings of Bosch by Hieronymus Bosch ( Book )
7 editions published between 1966 and 1971 in English and Undetermined and held by 433 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Hieronymus Bosch by Gary Schwartz ( Book )
1 edition published in 1997 in English and held by 355 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Discusses the life of the Dutch artist and explores his complex works

Hieronymus Bosch : new insights into his life and work ( Book )
8 editions published in 2001 in English and held by 291 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The life and works of Hieronymus Bosch by Trewin Copplestone ( Book )
2 editions published in 1995 in English and held by 284 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A brief biography of Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch, as well a collection of his diverse works, each of which includes an explanatory caption

Hieronymus Bosch by Carl Linfert ( Book )
17 editions published between 1970 and 1979 in 4 languages and held by 251 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Even in his own day, the strange canvases of Hieronymus Bosch attracted wonderment and awe; yet those contemporaries who so admired them at that time were almost wholly blind to the astonishing vision of the future that lay hidden within the paintings. They could only perceive the here-and-now, and the ever-present fear of demons that pervaded those years before the Reformation found ready confirmation in the fantastic inventions of Bosch's possessed and haunted world. Not many decades later, this was no more than a memory, and from then on Bosch was esteemed as, at most, the ingenious creator of fiendish images and ghostly apparitions. This has all long since changed. Scholars now see what the painter saw, which - while still largely expressed in terms of fable and horror - was always far from being a mere fairy-tale world. What Bosch saw was the fortunes and misfortunes of mankind; and although he concealed his vision within a cipher language that leads from one riddle to another, his message is always fundamentally comprehensible, never ambiguous. Bosch was a realist. His works go far beyond the accustomed limits of the picture: they proclaim the unknown. Bosch sees and paints violence, threats, the terror of machinery. In an age when mechanical technology was in its infancy, his paintings were prophetic in showing how the machine can menace, overpower, and ultimately enslave man himself ..."--Jacket