Bosch e l’altro Rinascimento

A leading title in 24 ORE Cultura’s Great Art Books series, packed with illustrations and important historical and scientific contributions, it reveals and describes an unusual and fascinating side of the Renaissance.

The large book will be published on the occasion of the major autumn exhibition at Palazzo Reale Milan Jheronimus Bosch and Southern Europe from November 9, 2022 to March 12, 2023.

Jheronimus Bosch is known worldwide as a painter of monstrous creatures and fantastic scenes that seem to be the result of dreamlike visions.

His fame did not begin in the Netherlands, where the artist was born, but in 16th-century southern Europe, which was artistically dominated by themes and styles typical of Renaissance classicism, far removed from those of the Flemish painter. The book thus sheds new and surprising light on a particular “Renaissance,” which always remained in the shadows compared to the classicism of Raphael, Titian and Parmigianino, but which actually had a strong artistic and cultural impact in various parts of Europe, with often grotesque or “anti-classical” expressions, as evidenced by Bosch’s cycle of tapestries at the Escorial, the paintings of masters such as Titian and El Greco, the works of engravers such as Giorgio Ghisi and sculptors and decorators such as Bernardo Buontalenti, and finally the culture of the Wunderkammer. This book, in addition to introducing Bosch, aims to illustrate the success of his art in Italy and Spain in the period between the 16th and early 17th centuries.

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Bernard Aikema – Professor of modern art history at the University of Verona, among the leading experts on artistic relations between European countries in the modern era.
Fernando Checa Cremades – Art historian and former director of the Prado Museum in Madrid. They were joined by a group of international scholars specializing in various aspects of the subject.