Salsi 2023
“The Dream of Raphael or The Allegory of Human Life by Giorgio Ghisi and its pictorial copies: the success of a motif ‘d’après Bosch’ in the second half of the sixteenth century” (Claudio Salsi) 2023
[in: Jos Koldeweij and Willeke Cornelissen (eds.), Jheronimus Bosch – His Workshop and His Followers – 5th International Jheronimus Bosch Conference, May 11-13, 2023, Jheronimus Bosch Art Center, ’s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. Jheronimus Bosch Art Center, ’s-Hertogenbosch, 2023, pp. 276-297]
In this essay, Salsi argues that a remarkable portion of Giorgio Ghisi’s engraving The Allegory of Human Life (published in 1561) reproduces ‘almost exactly’ the central composition of the central panel of Bosch’s Lisbon Temptations of St Anthony triptych, even though the reference to Boschian iconography is ‘not explicit and perhaps not directly sought by the Mantuan engraver’. Salsi also introduces five paintings which are based on Ghisi’s print with varying degrees of faithfulness. Personally and with the best will in the world, I do not see any similarity between the Ghisi engraving and Bosch’s Lisbon central panel.
[explicit May 10, 2024 – Eric De Bruyn]
