Hans Belting here offers his own interpretation of "The Garden of Earthly Delights", the luminous triptych by the Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch, which he sees not as apocalyptic, but utopian. Taking readers through each panel, Belting discusses various schools of thought and explores Bosch's life and times. He compares Bosch's vision with the humanistic theories of Thomas More and Willibald Pirckheimer and suggests that the painter's aim was not to evoke the end of the world, but to investigate how the world would exist ...
Read More
Hans Belting here offers his own interpretation of "The Garden of Earthly Delights", the luminous triptych by the Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch, which he sees not as apocalyptic, but utopian. Taking readers through each panel, Belting discusses various schools of thought and explores Bosch's life and times. He compares Bosch's vision with the humanistic theories of Thomas More and Willibald Pirckheimer and suggests that the painter's aim was not to evoke the end of the world, but to investigate how the world would exist had the Fall not happened. The book includes a fold-out reproduction of the original painting.
Read Less
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Hardcover in dust jacket., front free-endpaper has name/date/place of the bosch scholar who was the prior owner. no other flaws-clean, no text or exterior markings, tightly bound.; english text.; 126pp., 67 color plates., detailed book-length study of bosch's mysterious masterpiece, created at the end of the 15th century.; original hardcover edition, not the later flexi-bind version.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Very Good in Near Fine jacket. 4to-over 9¾-12" tall A beautiful, crisp, clean hardcover in very good condition; a few spots of rubbing though cloth at top of front boards. DJ in near fine condition.
