Jheronimus Bosch Art Center

Hieronymus Bosch - Every painting

Mulazzani 1979
Mulazzani, Germano
Genre: Nonfiction, art history
Aantal pagina's: 96
Uitgever: Rizzoli International Publications, New York
Uitgave datum: 1980 (1979)
ISBN: 0-8478-0266-3

Mulazzani 1979

 

Bosch: Tutti i dipinti (Germano Mulazzani) 1979

[Rizzoli, Milan, 1979, 96 pages]

[English translation: Germano Mulazzani, Hieronymus Bosch. Every painting. Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 1980, 96 pages]

[German translation: Germano Mulazzini, Hieronymus Bosch: Das Gesamtwerk. Ullstein, Frankfurt-am-Main-Berlin-Vienna, 1979, 96 pages]

[Also mentioned in Gibson 1983: 10 (A46)]

 

This pocket book, for the main part consisting of illustrations, offers a very superficial state of affairs regarding the literature on Bosch up to 1979. According to Mulazzani the most recent Bosch monographs strongly emphasize Bosch’s difficult iconography, but he believes that in the future we should try to achieve a synthesis of stylistic, compositional ànd iconographical aspects. Mulazzani himself clearly belongs to the ‘moderate’ Bosch authors: he rejects Fraenger’s theories, stresses the importance of the contemporary cultural environment and of the Modern Devotion for a better understanding of Bosch and prefers an iconographical to a chronological approach of the paintings.

 

Less traditional are this Italian author’s arguments in favour of the thesis that Bosch travelled to Italy (and especially to Venice) between 1499 and 1503. Bosch’s landscapes and half-figures from his late period were influenced by Italian, more precisely Venetian artistic circles, whereas in turn artists such as Raphael, Da Vinci, Giorgioni and Dürer (who was staying in Italy around that time) have made use of typical Bosch motifs in their repertoire.

 

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