Jerome Bosch. Life and art. Kosyakova V.A.

What is hidden behind the grotesque, places of comic aesthetics of Jerome Bosch? What does the artist express to his contemporary society through his eccentric plots? Why does the Bosch infernal Middle Ages catch us so? Where did the pregnant emperor come from on the canvas and why, finally, owls - not what they seem? The answers to these intriguing questions are on the pages of this book, a deep and intense study of the work of the Dutch master.

The legend of world painting, Bosch became famous not so much as a talented draftsman, but as a skilled hoax, the inventor of his own picturesque language, in which The lowland is intertwined with the sublime, the vicious ruthlessly reaches, and the everyday and “normal” is perverted in a launcher. To know the Bosch means to look into the minds of a medieval person, to understand what he laughs at, what he is afraid of, what he despises, and before what he is revered.

to choose the key to the ornate symbolism of the artist Valeria Kosyakova - the author of the sensational book “Apocalypse Middle Ages ”, candidate of cultural studies, teacher of the Russian State University and employee of the Center for Visual Research of the Middle Ages and New Age.