Van den Hoven van Genderen 2016
“Hieronymus Bosch und das Ende des Mittelalters – Die Niederlände im 16. Jahrhundert” (Bram van den Hoven van Genderen) 2016
[in: Michael Philipp (ed.), Verkehrte Welt – Das Jahrhundert von Hieronymus Bosch. Exhibition catalogue (Hamburg, Bucerius Kunst Forum, 4th June – 11th September 2016), Bucerius Kunst Forum-Hirmer Verlag, Hamburg-Munich, 2016, pp. 18-27]
In this catalogue contribution Van den Hoven van Gelderen examines the changes and the continuity in the sixteenth-century Low Countries and thus describes the political, economic, and cultural context of Bosch’s life and art. Four new evolutions were important in the sixteenth-century Low Countries: the formation and unitarianism of the political power, economic growth, the discovery of new worlds leading to new ideas, and finally the Reformation. But there were also many things that remained the same. The art of Bosch reflects this period of ‘transformation’: his oeuvre combines innovative and yet familiar images with generally accepted moral themes which were neither new nor old but still very much alive. This explains the success of Bosch’s art with his contemporaries.
[explicit 29th August 2018]
