Forty 2012
HIERONYMUS BOSCH
(Sandra Forty) 2012
[TAJ Books International LLP, Cobham (Surrey, UK), 2012, 96 pages]
Some 82+ illustrations (most of them of rather poor quality), preceded by a short introduction (7 pages only). Most of Bosch’s works represent Biblical scenes, are full of references to medieval folklore and contain a complex symbolism. Bosch was a man of high Christian morality: his paintings warn of living an immoral life and the consequences of such. Art historians used to think that he was a painter who set out to amuse and poke fun at society, but opinion has shifted to the belief that, as a very religious and observant man, he was showing the afterlife as described by the clerics of the late Middle Ages. A superficial and hardly interesting little book.
[explicit December 24, 2024 – Eric De Bruyn]
