Bosch (Perfect Squares)

Bosch (Perfect Squares) by Grange Books
English | July 1, 2005 | ISBN: 184013657X | 80 pages | EPUB | 3.59 Mb
In 1951, Wilhelm Fränger's tome, The Millennium of Hieronymus Bosch: Outlines of a New Interpretation, was translated into English. The book created a sensation, both on the scholarly and the popular levels. An article on the book accompanied by color illustrations in Life Magazine probably did more than anything else to popularize Bosch, because there had been little or nothing of the sort published on him at the time. Fränger's interpretation that Bosch did his major altarpieces not for orthodox religious purposes, but for use by quasi-religious cults was being promoted as a turning-point in the understanding of this enigmatic artist.