Hieronymus Bosch: Visions of Genius

Brussels/ New Haven: Mercatorfonds, 2016. Softcover. VG. Color illustrated wraps, gray spine with white and orange lettering, 191 pp, profusely illustrated in color throughout. Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in Het Noordbrabants Museum, 's-Hertogenbosch, 13 February to 8 May 2016. "Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450--1516) lived and worked in 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands, where he created enigmatic paintings and drawings full of bizarre creatures, phantasmagoric monsters, and terrifying nightmares. He also depicted detailed landscapes and found inspiration in fundamental moral concepts: seduction, sin, and judgment." -dust jacket. Contents include: Visions of genius -- Hieronymus Bosch (c.1450-1516) -- I. Life's pilgrimage -- Wayfarer Triptych -- The Wayfarer (Rotterdam) -- The ship of fools (Paris) -- Glutton and lust (New Haven) -- Death and the miser (Washington) -- The Haywain Triptych (Madrid -- II. Hieronymus Bosch in s'Hertogenbosch -- Altarpiece of the Brotherhood of Our Lady -- Saint John on Patmos -- Passion scenes (Berlin) -- Saint John the Baptist (Madrid) -- Ecce Homo Triptych (Boston) -- The cure of folly (Madrid) -- III. The life of Christ -- The creation of the world : the garden of Eden (Escorial) -- The adoration of the magi (New York) -- The adoration of the magi (Philadelphia) -- The arrest, crowing with thorns and flagellation of Christ (Valencia) -- Ecce homo (Frankfurt) -- Christ carrying the cross -- Christ child (Vienna) -- IV. Bosch as Draughtsman -- The owl's nest (Rotterdam) -- The wood has ears, the field has eyes -- Study of a beggar and workshop sketches (Berlin) -- Model sheet with 'witches' (Paris) -- Gathering of the birds (Berlin) -- Battle of the birds and mammals (Berlin) -- Two old women -- Fox and cockerel (Rotterdam) -- Man in a basket, old woman with tongs and children (Vienna) -- The conjurer (Paris) -- The conjurer (Liege) -- The conjurer (Saint-Germain-en-Laye) -- Ten spectators (New York) -- Two men -- The temptation of Eve (Private collection) -- Two oriental men (Berlin) -- The entombment of Christ (London) -- Beggars (Brussels) -- Beggars (Vienna) -- Two monsters (2) (Berlin) -- The temptation of Saint Anthony -- Singers in an egg and two sketches of monsters (Berlin) -- Infernal landscape (Private collection) -- Burning ship (Vienna) -- Two monsters -- A head-and-feet figure and a monster (Berlin) -- Infernal scene with anvil and monsters -- Monsters (Berlin) Model sheet with monsters (Oxford) -- Model sheet with monsters (Providence) -- V. Saints -- Saint Christopher (Rotterdam) -- Saint Wilgefortis Triptych (Venice) -- Saint Jerome at prayer (Ghent) -- Hermit Saints Triptych (Venice) -- Job Triptych (Bruges) -- The temptation of Saint Anthony (Kansas City) -- The temptation of Saint Anthony (Madrid) -- The temptation of Saint Anthony ('s-Hertogenbosch) -- VI. The end of days -- The Flood Panels (Rotterdam) -- After the flood : two tondi -- After the last judgement : two tondi -- The last judgement (Bruges) -- The last judgement (Munich) -- Visions of the hereafter (Venice) : the way to heaven -- The Garden of Eden -- The ascent of the blessed -- The way to hell -- The fall of the damned -- The river to hell.