...  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...

...the cartoon can be made. By putting this replica across similar compositions, workshops that specialised in copying can be tracked down. This technique should also be applied to other compositions...

...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...

...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...

...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’...

...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...

...1975, pp. 145-225] [Also mentioned in Gibson 1983: 55 (D58)]   In this book Fraenger gathers far-reaching biographical details about the Supreme Master of the sect of the Free Spirit...

...invent new and original images, give free rein to the imagination and develop a distinctive artistic personality.   The scene in the foreground of the left interior panel is usually...

The present composition derives from a mirror-image engraving by Jacques Callot dated 1617, of which only five examples exist. Callot made the engraving whilst working in Florence for the Medici...