...can perfectly be understood if one adopts the supposed outillage mental (mental equipment) of a relatively well-educated, Christian, late medieval commoner, who painted for fellow-commoners, religious fraternities and noblemen. It...
...can perfectly be understood if one adopts the supposed outillage mental (mental equipment) of a relatively well-educated, Christian, late medieval commoner, who painted for fellow-commoners, religious fraternities and noblemen. It...
...well informed about pilgrimages to Jerusalem and Compostella by people from ‘s-Hertogenbosch or its direct neighborhood. The city of Compostella drew at least nineteen pilgrims from this area between the...
...that was used for meditation by the sect of the Free Spirit (see also Fraenger 1947). He explains every detail on the panel (the lamb, the weird plant, the structures...
...bad quality in many cases. Moreover the introductory text about Bosch’s life and works is very unreliable. An example: Stanic writes that the meeting between Bosch and ‘Jacob de Aelmangien’...
...At certain points one feels that in order to make his point or to illustrate the point made, the author stretches the facts somewhat." -oOo- Not being a...
...Paradise panel in Vienna (Kunsthistorisches Museum) [see Falkenburg 2011: 35-41 / 42-45 / 27-28]. He concludes that the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century devilries allowed the spectator to give free rein to...
...hervorming der zeden (Lène Dresen-Coenders) 1983 [Ambo, Baarn, 1983, 328 pages] [Not mentioned in Gibson 1983] This commercial edition of the dissertation of the Dutch psychologist Lène Drese-Coenders discusses...
...Adoration of the Magi copy was probably produced around 1550 for the free art market. The Cranach copy was undoubtedly commissioned by an unknown patron. [explicit 17th February 2018]...
...in the shadow to read a book. Or he would have started a trade in fig leafs’ (p. 144). About Jeroen who is drawing common people from ’s-Hertogenbosch: ‘What is...
... According to Rothe Wilhelm Fraenger has convincingly demonstrated that Bosch belonged to the sect of the Brothers and Sisters of the Free Spirit (also called ‘homines intelligentiae’): ‘The best...