Hieronymus Bosch - Visions and Nightmares

"Explains Bosch's paintings against the background of contemporary Dutch culture and social reality."--Inside back cover.

About the author

Nils Büttner is Professor of Art History at the State Academy of Art and Design, Stuttgart. His previous publications include Landscape Painting: A History (2006), The History of Gardens in Painting (2008) and Otto Dix and New Objectivity (2013).

Summary

New in the 'Renaissance Lives' series from Reaktion, this is a biography and analysis of the life and work of Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450 - 9 August 1516), an enigmatic painter of eerie and infernal visions.

Product details

• Authors: Nils Buettner, Nils Buttner, Nils Büttner
• Assisted by: Anthony Mathews (Translation)
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2016
• EAN: 9781780235790
• ISBN: 978-1-78023-579-0
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 144 mm x 223 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Renaissance Lives; Renaissance Lives
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / History / General, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, History of Art, Painting & paintings, Renaissance art, Individual artists, art monographs, Renaissance style, Paintings and painting