A legend of world painting, Bosch became famous not so much as a talented draftsman, but as a skillful mystifier, an inventor of his own pictorial language, in which the base intertwines with the exalted, the corrupt is mercilessly exposed,...
and the everyday and "normal" is distorted in a macabre dance. To know Bosch is to peek into the consciousness of a medieval person, to understand what he laughs at, what he fears, what he despises, and what he reveres. The key to the ornate symbolism of the artist was found by Valeria Kasyakova – the author of the sensational book "The Apocalypse of the Middle Ages", a candidate in cultural studies, a teacher at RSUH and a researcher at the Center for Visual Studies of the Middle Ages and the Modern Era.
A legend of world painting, Bosch became famous not so much as a talented draftsman, but as a skillful mystifier, an inventor of his own pictorial language, in which the base intertwines with the exalted, the corrupt is mercilessly exposed, and the everyday and "normal" is distorted in a macabre dance. To know Bosch is to peek into the consciousness of a medieval person, to understand what he laughs at, what he fears, what he despises, and what he reveres. The key to the ornate symbolism of the artist was found by Valeria Kasyakova – the author of the sensational book "The Apocalypse of the Middle Ages", a candidate in cultural studies, a teacher at RSUH and a researcher at the Center for Visual Studies of the Middle Ages and the Modern Era.
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