International researchers today reiterated his certainty that three paintings that preserves the Prado are not of Hieronymus Bosch, Bosch , as he announced the discovery of a new painter’s work that has been decades in the warehouse of a museum of Kansas (USA).
The Project The Conservation Research Bosco today introduced in the hometown of the painter (Hertogenbosch) the results of their artistic and historical work to study and document intensive and systematic way during the past six years all the work of the most important medieval Dutch painter with innovative techniques .
Experts stress, after other discoveries announced in recent months that a version of “The Temptation of St. Anthony” , a work that was classified for years as work of an apprentice or disciple of Bosch and stored in a warehouse of the Museum of Art Nelson-Atkins Kansas, is actually the Flemish painter.
The picture is thus the main attraction exhibition that pays tribute to the painter (1450-1516) in his hometown of Hertogenbosch or Den Bosch on the 500th anniversary of his death and opens to the public on the 13th.
Scott Heffley, conservative Museum of Kansas, explained that bought the box “in 1936, thinking that the work was Bosch,” but “our researchers for years they changed the authorship and attributed it to one of his pupils”.
“Perhaps this change was due to the restoration that took him in 1940, it was not as good as it should have been,” he said.
Heffley said that experts of the Research Project The Conservation Bosco were interested in painting and, after analyzing it, discovered that in fact the painting itself was painted by the master, “he said.
The painting, dating from between 1500 and 1510, the last period The activity Bosco, is a fragment of a larger one, which has been shortened by all sides.
Using infrared photography and infrared reflectography applied by the researchers have been able to visualize some firms perfectly relate to anything found in other paintings of the central work of Hieronymus Bosch.
In the painting is a San Antonio, recognizable by the T-shaped cross your mantle, filling a pitcher with . water in a river
The saint is threatened in its existence dedicated to God by strange creatures around him, a small creature hidden under a funnel, a monster with the head of a fox, or a leg of pork on a board floating in the water, among others.
The art historian and coordinator of the Research and Conservation Project, Matthijs Ilsink, consider finding a “small but important addition” to Bosch’s work.
The team led by Ilsink also sheds light on other previously attributed to El Bosco, including some in the Museo del Prado jobs.
For experts Research Project and Conservation Bosch, “Extracting Stone of Madness”, “The Temptation of St. Anthony Abbot” and “The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things” are not the work of the Flemish painter, but were probably painted by one of his followers.
“We looked in depth with our teams ‘Extracting Stone of Madness’ and we believe that or comes from the workshop of Bosch or is painted by a follower of Bosch, but not the master, “said Ilsink.
As for” The Temptation of St. Anthony “and” The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things, “art historian maintains that it is not attributable to Bosch, but acknowledged they could not discuss them with their own equipment to “not get the necessary authorization.”
On this second table he said “was not painted on oak, which is easy to date, but in another type of wood” .
The Prado has repeatedly denied that the works questioned by the Research and Conservation Project Bosch are of different authors the Dutch master.
However The official position of the Spanish gallery will be released on May 31, when it opens a major exhibition in Madrid by the fifth anniversary of the painter’s death.
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