Bosch and Bruegel (eBook)

From Enemy Painting to Everyday Life

Joseph Leo Koerner (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
432 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-25300-8 (ISBN)

Infos

A bold new interpretation of two northern Renaissance mastersIn this visually stunning and much anticipated book, acclaimed art historian Joseph Koerner casts the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel in a completely new light, revealing how the painting of everyday life was born from what seems its polar opposite: the depiction of an enemy hell-bent on destroying us.Supreme virtuoso of the bizarre, diabolic, and outlandish, Bosch embodies the phantasmagorical force of painting, while Bruegel, through his true-to-life landscapes and frank depictions of peasants, is the artistic avatar of the familiar and ordinary. But despite their differences, the works of these two artists are closely intertwined. Bruegel began his career imitating Bosch's fantasies, and it was Bosch who launched almost the whole repertoire of later genre painting. But Bosch depicts everyday life in order to reveal it as an alluring trap set by a metaphysical enemy at war with God, whereas Bruegel shows this enemy to be nothing but a humanly fabricated mask. Attending closely to the visual cunning of these two towering masters, Koerner uncovers art history's unexplored underside: the image itself as an enemy.An absorbing study of the dark paradoxes of human creativity, Bosch and Bruegel is also a timely account of how hatred can be converted into tolerance through the agency of art. It takes readers through all the major paintings, drawings, and prints of these two unforgettable artists-including Bosch's notoriously elusive Garden of Earthly Delights, which forms the core of this historical tour de force. Elegantly written and abundantly illustrated, the book is based on Koerner's A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, a series given annually at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.Published in association with the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DCPlease note: All images in this ebook are presented in black and white and have been reduced in size.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.10.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Bollingen Series
• Reihe/Serie: Bollingen Series
• Reihe/Serie: The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts
• Reihe/Serie: The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts
• Zusatzinfo: 325 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Schlagworte: Achievement (heraldry) • Allegory • Allusion • Altarpiece • Ambiguity • Anathema • Anime • Antwerp • Art History • art. poiesis • Beauty • beret • Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, MS germ. • Bosch, Hieronymus • Bruegel (institution) • Bruegel, Pieter, the Elder • Bruegel, Pieter, the Elder, works by • Bruegel Room • Bruegel Room, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna • Canova, Antonio, Hercules • Caricature • Chapter 2 • Chiaroscuro • Christian martyrs • Class action • class conflict • Conflagration • Crime against nature • Cristofano Allori • Description • Early Netherlandish painting • Emblem • Embroidery • engraving • Ernst, Archduke of Austria • Everyday life • Franz Joseph I, Emperor • Futures Studies • Genre painting • Georgius Agricola • Gluttony • Hasenauer, Karl von • hatred • Hieronymus Bosch • High Art • Holy Roman Empire • humility • Hyle • Iconoclasm • James Strachey • Jan van Eyck • Jewish hat • Judeo-Christian • Karel Van Mander • Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna • Library • Literature • London, British Library, Kings MS • Mass of Saint Gregory • Michael Wolgemut • Modernity • Museo del Prado • Museo di Capodimonte • Mussel • Natural and legal rights • natura naturata and natura naturans • Nature • Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna • Netherlands • Nobility • Ortelius, Abraham • picture plane • Pieter Bruegel the Elder • pity • Pogrom • Poiesis • proverb • Royal Library of Belgium • Rudolf II, Emperor • Second Letter (Plato) • Self-control • self-portrait • Self-preservation • Semper, Gottfried • Spontaneous Generation • Symbolism • Symptom • tavern • The Hay Wain • The Land of Cockaigne (Bruegel) • The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things • traps • viewers experience • Wallraf-Richartz Museum • woodcut • worldscapes • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-25300-5 / 0691253005
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-25300-8 / 9780691253008