Hieronymus Bosch

An accessible biography of the celebrated early Netherlandish painter, now in paperback.

In his lifetime the early Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch was famous for his phantasmagoric images, and today his name is synonymous with the infernal. The creator of expansive tableaus of fantastic and hellish scenes-where any devil not dancing is too busy eating human souls-he has been as equally misunderstood by history as his paintings have. In this book, Nils Büttner draws on a wealth of historical documents-not to mention Bosch's paintings-to offer a fresh and insightful look at one of history's most peculiar artists on the five-hundredth anniversary of his death.