God in the Details: Bosch and Judgment(s)

• Autores: Larry Silver
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 83, Nº 4, 2001, págs. 626-650
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • While many of their details remain unexplained, the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch (d. 1516) provide strong patterns of viewing, which offer moral instruction through directed sight. His triptychs frequently read from left to right, from Eden to Hell. Most of Bosch’s works reveal a vision of Heaven or of Christ only to the most perceptive of viewers, those who can discern this insight amid the distractions and temptations of a demonic setting. Bosch even thematizes both sight and moral insight in his Seven Deadly Sins, where the eye of God forms the central image.