Hieronymus Bosch Author:Wilhelm Fraenger, Independent Pub Group Craftsman House This magnificent journey through the world of the enigmatic and popular artist provides a masterly analysis of Boschs artwork as well as convincing solutions to its apparent paradoxes. For decades, Hieronymus Boschs brilliant, hallucinatory paintings have mystified viewers as well as art historians. Questions about the artists... more » use of symbols, his preoccupation with mans sinfulness and hell, and even details about the Boschs own life have been the source of speculation and frustration. Wilhelm Fraengers masterwork, the culmination of twenty years of meticulous research and scholarly detective work, reveals his fascinating discoveries about Boschs patrons and the secular and religious climate in which he painted. This classic monograph available for the first time from Prestel looks beyond the bizarre nature of Boschs images to decipher their true meanings and purpose. Written in an eminently readable and entertaining style, and illustrated with more than more than two hundred reproductions, the book invites readers to enter the painters phantasmagoric universe, and deepens their understanding of this often misunderstood artist.« less