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Hieronymus Bosch Hardcover – October 1, 2006

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The phantasmagoric imagery of Hieronymus Bosch (d. 1516) has been the source of widespread interest ever since the painter’s lifetime, and is still so enigmatic that scholars have theorized that it contains hidden astrological, alchemical, or even heretical meanings. Yet none of these theories has ever seemed to provide an adequate understanding of Bosch’s work. Moreover, the considerable professional success that the artist enjoyed in his native Hertogenbosch, not to mention his membership in a traditional religious organization, suggests that he pursued not a sinister secret agenda but simply his personal artistic vision.

This intriguing new monograph by noted art historian Larry Silver interprets that artistic vision with admirable lucidity: it explains how Bosch’s understanding of human sin, morality, and punishment, which was conceived in an era of powerful apocalyptic expectation, shaped his dramatic visualizations of hell and of the temptations of even the most steadfast saints. Silver’s account of Bosch’s artistic development is one of the first to benefit from recent technical investigations of the paintings, as well as from the reexamination of the artist’s drawings in relation to his paintings.

Hieronymus Bosch is also unique in how securely it places its subject’s work in the broader history of painting in the Low Countries: Silver identifies sources of Bosch’s iconography in a wide range of fifteenth-century panel paintings, manuscript illuminations, and prints, and describes how, despite their own religiousness, Bosch’s pictures helped inspire the secular landscape and genre scenes of later Netherlandish painters. Augmented by 310 illustrations, most in color, including many dramatic close-ups of Bosch’s intricately imagined nightmare scenes, this is the definitive book on a perennially fascinating artist.

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Bosch's elaborately, often monstrously detailed art remains bewitching and bewildering lo these many years since his death, in 1516. Books about this influential Netherlandish painter and his most famous work, the endlessly surprising Garden of Earthly Delights, are many. Why, then, produce yet another volume on Bosch? Because the more one looks at his intricate paintings, the more one sees, especially in the nearly 300 magnificent color reproductions, including breathtaking close-ups, that distinguish this top-of-the-line tome. North Renaissance art historian Silver's fresh and far-ranging commentary interweaves biography with discussions of Bosch's aesthetic breakthroughs and responses to his social, religious, and political milieu. Silver traces the inspirations for, and seeks to decode, Bosch's complex iconography, carefully analyzes Bosch's depictions of saints, and avers that Bosch's "most original innovation was his production of triptychs dedicated to moral issues." In Leap (2000), naturalist Terry Tempest Williams used binoculars in the Prado to scrutinize the panoramic wildness of Garden of Earthly Delights; here all is in exquisite and intimate focus, bringing Bosch to light as never before. Donna Seaman
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"Hieronymus Bosch carefully explores the often-nightmarish mind of this ever-illusive artist. Enormously impressive in its scholarly detail."
― Art Times

"Every page proclaims high seriousness. This is the scholarly volume on the artist for our time."
― Arizona Daily Star

"Larry Silver, a professor of art history at the University of Pennsylvania, elucidates “The Garden of Earthly Delights” and the nightmarish circus it presents, as well as a host of Bosch’s other magnificent works. He draws upon new research into his subject’s cultural milieu, belief system and artistic intentions. His explications of the paintings and their influence on other artists, most notably Pieter Bruegel the Elder, contain many fresh insights. . . . Bosch has 310 illustrations, most in full and high quality color, a vast bibliography and index. It’s a big book and will well reward the many hours needed to digest it."
― Bloomsbury Review?

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Abbeville Press; 1st edition (October 1, 2006)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 424 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0789209012
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0789209016
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.85 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 11.3 x 1.7 x 13.2 inches

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- #198 in Religious Arts & Photography
- #697 in Individual Artist Monographs
- #2,513 in Art History (Books)

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Most beautiful book on enigmatic Bosch

Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2023

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This book is a treasure! There are two things by which this book stands out as compared to, e.g., other big Bosch books: 1- it has amazing pictures- reproductions- on high quality paper with wonderful vibrant colors, including full-pages spread painting reproductions as well as details (magnified) (to be fair, the Taschen book is also quite amazing in this respect), and 2- it has unparalleled commentary from an incredible author and art historian, the text is extensively informative, comprehensive, interesting, and exciting. That is, it has the perfect depth and completeness of commentary that i was searching for, with very interesting takes and ideas on the idiosyncrasies and mysteries in Bosch's paintings.
The other book by Mr. Larry Silver (the equally gorgeous Bruegel album) offers a similar feast for the eyes and mind.

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Artwork

Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2023

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Artwork though disturbing, is incredibly good

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Revelations of Hieronymus Bosch

Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2007

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Hieronymus Bosch History of world's art knows a very few artists whose contribution can be compared to Hieronymus Bosch's
oeuvre-this enigmatic Flemish master has set bar extremely high,& only Pieter Bruegel The Elder & perhaps Francisco Goya were able to expose real truth about human nature with almost equal depth and conviction-and today apocalyptic and sarcastic paintings of Hieronymus Bosch are as modern as ever...
This particular book about Hieronymus Bosch is arguably one of the best amongst countless attempts to capture elusive magic of this old Flemish painter, and spectacular quality of art reproduction can take you as close to the original painting as you can possibly get, so there is very little left between mesmerizing Revelations of Hieronymus Bosch and reader of "Hieronymus Bosch" by Larry Silver.

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Jim Woodring

A feast.

Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2014

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It's a funny thing... when I saw this book at a friend's house I immediately rushed out and bought a copy and I love it... or at least I did love it until I saw the newer, bigger and better-annotated Taschen Bosch volume, which leaves this one in the shade. But this book is still great, particularly for the many full-page details. It's all about the pictures, of course. Bosch scholarship, though growing, is still sketchy, speculative and unspectacular. Personally I think it's better to avoid the few known mundane facts of his life and just dive into the images with a mind unencumbered by dull facts.

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H. King

Substantial and important

Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2013

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My only complaint about this book is that the dust jacket isn't well fitted to the -rather large- size of the book, and consequently, it floats around it a bit, giving the impression that the binding is loose.
Otherwise, this book is great! The reproductions -many of them in detail- are amazing and the writing is rich. Great book.

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Excellent service. The book is one the best in ...

Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2016

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Excellent service. The book is one the best in this area, especially, considering its author. Recommended to every one who is interested in Northern Renaissance.

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excellent product

Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2014

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this is a great book for symbolism art for students and artists showing this master artist at work. I would recommend this book for people serious about art.

Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2009

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I am not an art expert, but I believe H. was the Van Gogh of his age with his amazing imagination and use of colors, but he was also a technician. This book shows off his paintings to very good effect.

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wrose

Excellent

Reviewed in Germany on November 8, 2018

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If you're really into Bosch, this edition is outstanding.

Anna U

This is rich!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 2, 2017

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Great book! Beautiful quality prints plus very interesting commentary. The volume is real heavy, so I am glad I did not buy it as a present)

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対応か悪すぎ。

Reviewed in Japan on December 7, 2016

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12月3日に届く予定だったのに待てど暮らせど来ず…連絡したら違う所に送っていたので届くのに時間がかかるけど商品は確保出来ていますと言う連絡からも来ず…次に連絡したら26日過ぎてしまったら遅廷・紛失どちらの際でもお預かりしている金額は返すと返事。26日過ぎても来ないので返金されるんですか？と聞くと
返金をご希望なら商品を返品して下さい。との事…。本当に意味が分かりません。
まだ届いてもない商品に返品しろと言われてamazonの方へ連絡したら29日に佐川急便から届きました。
とても気分がわるいです。

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Larry Silvers' profound and complex first volume on the two visionary masters of Netherlandish Art

Reviewed in Canada on February 8, 2014

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This is an absolutely beautiful book, even by the standards of Abbeville Press, who spare no expense in the production of their art monographs. From the durable double-fold dustjacket, it's wraparound image of a detail from 'the Garden of Earthly Delights' providing a perfect backdrop for the tasteful white font on the cover and spine, to the clothbound covers beneath it, the faux-16th century type above echoed below, embossed in gilt, everything has been utilized to produce the best book possible. The paperstock is thick, archival & semi-gloss, ideal for art monographs. At 11.5" wide by 13.5" tall, 425 pages long, it's very heavy, but the Smyth-sewn binding is tight and redundant, protecting it from falling apart after its 11 or 12 lb bulk suffers some inevitable rough handling. The reproductions of Bosch's works are excellent, with many full page details illuminating the tiny but intricately articulated crooks and caverns loaded with cryptic significance. Silver is happy to play the part of riddle-solver and codebreaker, using historical and cultural research in order to divine the many visual puns which correspond with popular proverbs, cliches, jokes and fables, the majority of which have been lost to modernity. In Silvers' companion volume to 'Hieronymus Bosch', 'Pieter Bruegel', which is even longer than its predecessor (at 465 pages), and is designed with the same format and wraparound painting-dustjacket design (making both volumes look very nice sitting together on your bookshelf), his skills are really put to the test. In Bruegels' 'Netherlandish Proverbs', for example, the 5ft wide by 4ft tall painting is populated by scores of figures, each little group or duo enacting a medieval proverb. Silver provides a helpful diagram of the 'actors' outlines, numbering, naming and then explaining the 85 proverbs in Bruegels' remarkable work. Bringing this same commitment to decoding the mystical mindset of an artist and society still very much stuck in the mire of the dark ages, the enlightenment of the renaissance a faint glow on the eastern horizon. Nevertheless, the artistic developments of Jan Van Eyck, Rogier Van Der Weyden and Robert Campin in the early 1400's, their prodigious mastery of oil painting long before their Italian counterparts discovered it's advantages, make the Northern Renaissance exciting and full of potential. Silver explores the various influences that would have shaped the worldview of a young Bosch, and then the influence Bosch has exerted on Netherlandish art, both in his lifetime and after his death. The numerous reproductions of many artists whose works relate to Boschs' own, combined with discussions illuminating their importance, enrich a book already heavy with treasures like 'the Garden of Earthly Delights', 'the Temptations of St.Anthony', & 'the Last Judgement'. One of the best monographs I own (and I have hundreds, literally). That said, I recently ordered the massive, visually mindblowing 'Jheronimus Bosch' by Stefan Fischer, published by Taschen. You can preorder it here and wait til April, or if you're a Bosch-obsessed bibliophile like me, you can buy it now from the British Amazon site, amazon.co.uk. I won't blather on about it here, but suffice to say, it is just as impressive, and a bit pricy (Silvers' book has an MSRP of $150.00, the Taschen book, $175.00. It also comes in a specially designed shipping box with a wraparound detail of 'Garden...' and a handle (!). But I digress).

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Giacomo

bellissimo libro

Reviewed in Italy on April 18, 2015

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tantissime immagini dei quadri e raccolta probabilmente complete. 2 piccolo nei: richiesta spedizione urgente e promessa consegna prima di natale non mantenuta., scritto in inglese quando non era menzionato.
Per me non era un problema, ma siccome era un regalo lo puo' essere stato per quello che lo ha ricevuto.
riguardo al ritardo devo dire che poi ho ricevuto il rimborso per lextra rapida consegna pagata, ma non era sufficiente a compensare il natale che era passato. la prossima volta mi sveglio prima.

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