The Prado insists reassert authorship of three of his works by Hieronymus Bosch – W Radio

(Updates with more statements of the expert Pilar Silva)

Madrid, May 27 (EFE) .- The Prado insisted today reaffirm the authorship of three of the works has Hieronymus Bosch , contrary to the claims of the Research Project Conservation international believes that those attributed to Flemish painter paintings were actually made by students.

the deputy director of the Prado, Miguel Falomir said that reasons given by the project, led by the Netherlands but with the participation of international experts, “quite the opposite” of desatribuir authorship of El Bosco, really “guarantee”.

Over the past six years, these experts have studied and documented extensively and systematically virtually all the work of the teacher with the most innovative techniques and their conclusions state that “extracting stone of madness”, “the temptation of St. Anthony Abbot” and “Mesa of the capital sins “are not the work of Flemish painter.

Falomir said that respect the conclusions of their colleagues on these three works from the collection of the Prado, but” in no way “the share.

in the presentation of the great shows that the Prado Museum devoted to the Dutch master, his commissioner, Pilar Silva, he reiterated that “anyone but Bosch had been able to make a composition, a creation, as ‘the table of deadly sins.’ “

in the words of Falomir, the position of the Prado is not inmovilista to defend his works since, as has been shown in the past” the Prado has no qualms “for example to recognize other authorships as happened with the painting of the Infanta Margarita was attributed to Velazquez.

” When there are arguments, listen, and in this case we have studied their considerations and do not convince us “said Falomir who recalled that to attribute or desatribuir authorship must raise various technical arguments.

One of them is dendrochronology, which determines the years of dating the woods on which are painted the works . In the cases of these paintings, the time when the woods were cut coincide with Jerome van Aken, Bosch (1453-1516) was active.

Other scientific studies refer to the analysis pigments. “Studies show that none of the materials used in them is alien to the work of the Bosco. These studies do not tell you who has painted the work but who has not done”.

According Falomir, the project experts have interpreted these data in a way “and we do another.”

in this regard, Pilar Silva, head of Department of Spanish Painting (1100-1500) and Flemish Painting and northern Schools Prado, he detailed more reasons that the Prado is “absolutely convinced” that the three works are by Hieronymus Bosch.

Silva said on “the Seven Deadly sins and the Four Last Things” both technical preparation as primer is usual in the artist.

and even though the underlying picture is very varied and there are many corrections and changes between this phase and color, “we must bear in mind that if something like the Bosco is not repeated. its originality is the norm, the leitmotif of his way of working “.

for Silva” there is nothing that tells us that this work is not Bosco, surface technique leaves no doubt. No one other than the Bosco had been able to make a composition, a creation like this on a scene which until then represented in a very different way. “

With regard to the” Extracting stone of madness “, the Commissioner recalled that mainly questioned by the landscape, too vanished type Leonardo,” but is made directly with the typical freedom of Bosco. There is nothing here other than Bosco “.

With regard to” The Temptation of St. Anthony “, it is known that around 1540 in Flanders,” the work underwent a conservation problem that affected mainly the saint, in the pictorial layer. As at that time what they took were the landscapes, filled with leaves top “.

Pilar Silva, who asked to be deleted from the Research Project Committee believes that if members of the same are scientists “have to be willing to rectify” while Miguel Zugaza, director of the Prado, believes it is “inconsistent” find the Bosco in the table of San Antonio Museum of Art Nelson-Atkins Kansas, recently attributed to painter, and not finding it in his. EFE

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