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About the product The first full-fledged study of the work of Hieronymus Bosch in Russian! A new book from the author of the bestseller «Apocalypse of the Middle Ages»! Unknown paintings by Bosch, fragments and details of paintings — all the artist’s legacy under one cover! Abstract What is hidden behind the grotesque, sometimes comic aesthetics of Hieronymus Bosch? What attitude towards contemporary society did the artist express through his eccentric subjects? Why is Bosch’s infernal Middle Ages so attractive to us? Where did the pregnant emperor appear on the canvas and why, finally, are owls not what they seem? The answers to these intriguing questions are on the pages of this book, a deep and rich study of the work of the Dutch master. The legend of world painting, Bosch became famous not so much as a talented draftsman, but as a skilled hoaxer, the inventor of his own pictorial language, in which the base is intertwined with the sublime, the vicious is mercilessly denounced, and the everyday and «normal» is perverted in macabre dance. To know Bosch means to look into the consciousness of a medieval man, to understand what he laughs at, what he is afraid of, what he despises, and what he is in awe. Valeria Kosyakova, the author of the acclaimed book «Apocalypse of the Middle Ages» Russian State University for the Humanities and an employee of the Center for Visual Research of the Middle Ages and Modern Times. …
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