ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque Hieronymous Bosch (1450-1516) In real life...
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- ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
Hieronymous Bosch (1450-1516) In real life he was quite an ordinary
fellow Im told, a city father who enjoyed taking care of the
costumes of the yearly carnival. Of course everything was religious
then. Dutch novelist Janwillem van de Wetering Bosch seemed to me
to be drawing his monstrously beautiful creatures from life,
matter-of-factly lining up all hell to sit for him, as brisk a
realist as my uncles. There is no such place, but this is how it
must be. How did he know...? Peter Beagle
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Hieronymous Bosch (1450-1516) Bosch, Hieronyrnus. His family name
was van Aken, suggesting origins in the German town of Aachen; the
name by which he is known refers to the Dutch town of
's-Hertogenbosch, where he was born (presumably c1450), lived and
worked. Bosch is celebrated for panel pictures, both large and
small, fantastically peopled with a nightmare world of shifting
forms and inconsistent scale, elegantly painted with sometimes
lurid colour effects. The effects of metamorphosisbeings changing
from one order of existence to anotherrecall those of Gothic
manuscript decorations or Italian grotesques, but are far more
gruesome and threatening. The meticulous techniques of oil painting
in translucent layers or glazes... evolved by Jan van Eyck are
utilized by Bosch to give a semblance of reality to his creations,
deployed within landscapes that stretch as far as the eye can see,
or across night scenes fitfully illuminated by the fires of Hell or
Armaggedon.
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Hieronymous Bosch (1450-1516) Fanciful theories have grown up
around these paintings in the 20th century, from psychoanalytical
explanations to hypotheses of Bosch's allegiance to magic, alchemy
or a secret heretical sect. But it can be demonstrated that these
pictures were designed to impart quite orthodox moral and spiritual
truths, and that their monstrous visual imagery often simply
translates into pictorial form verbal puns and metaphors, the
linguistic imagery of proverbs, sermons and popular devotional
literature. It is probable that Bosch's most dreamlike allegories
(such as the large triptychs of the Garden of Earthly Delights and
the Haywain) were painted for lay patronsBurgundian nobles at the
courts of Brussels and Malineswho delighted in intricately crafted
and refined works of art and craft, but required also a moralizing
message. Hieronymous Bosch (1450-1516)
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Hieronymous Bosch (1450-1516) His equally nightmarish, but more
conventional Last Judgement triptych, may have been an actual
altarpiece, or intended for an institution such as a hospital....
Bosch's pictorial inventions spawned innumerable successors, among
them Pieter *Bruegel's painted allegories and the prints after
them; his influence can be traced through the 17th century. We
should be aware, however, that these paintings do not represent
Bosch,s entire oeuvre, which included striking but less enigmatic
representations of human folly (e.g. the early Tabletop of the
Seven Deadly Sins...) and, in well over half of his extant
pictures, traditional Christian subjects, especially episodes of
the Passion of Christ Hieronymous Bosch (1450-1516)
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- ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque The
Seven Deadly Sins Se7en (David Fincher, 1995)
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- ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque The
Seven Deadly Sins: Wrath
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- ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque The
Seven Deadly Sins: Greed (Avarice)
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- ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque The
Seven Deadly Sins: Envy
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- ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque The
Seven Deadly Sins: Pride
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- ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque The
Seven Deadly Sins: Gluttony
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- ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque The
Seven Deadly Sins: Sloth
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- ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque The
Seven Deadly Sins: Lust
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- ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
Christ Carrying the Cross
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- ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque The
Ship of Fools
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- ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque Death
and the Miser
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- ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque The
House of Ill Fame
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- ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque The
House of Ill Fame (detail)
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- ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque The
Haywain
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- ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque The
HaywainLeft Paradise
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- ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque The
Haywain: Center
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- ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque The
HaywainRight: Hell
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- ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque The
Temptation of Saint Anthony
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- ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque The
Temptation of Saint Anthony (left panel)
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- ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque The
Temptation of Saint Anthony (center panel)
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- ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque The
Temptation of Saint Anthony (right panel)
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- ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
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- The Garden of Earthly Delights
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- ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque The
Garden of Earthly Delights (left panel)
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- ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque The
Garden of Earthly Delights (Central Panel)
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- ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque The
Garden of Earthly Delights (right panel)
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- ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque The
Creation of the World (from The Garden of Earthly Delights)
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- ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
Detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights
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- ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
Detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights
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- ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
Detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights
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- ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
Detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights
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- ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
Detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights
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- ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
Detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights
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- ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
Detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights
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- ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
Detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights
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- ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
Detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights
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- ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
Detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights
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- ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque The
Last Judgment
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- ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque The
Last Judgment (left panel)
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- ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque The
Last Judgment (center panel)
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- ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque The
Last Judgment (right panel)
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- ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque
Paradise and Hell