Although the Prado Museum in Madrid is the abode of the work of painters such as Goya, Velazquez, El Greco and Rubens, among countless pieces of European art of great creators of all ages, piezasde Bosch are the true artistic epicenter of that institution . Every day, from opening to closing, never be a pin in the exclusive room dedicated to the Dutch painter; visitors (critics, collectors, scholars, young artists, general public, coming from five continents) wait up to an hour to watch a few minutes The Garden of Earthly Delights , a piece that, opening the curtain an imagination beyond all limits, seduces the viewer with the symbols of the Christian concepts represented in dreamlike scenes, painted with an almost Edenic softness.
“Now that commemorates V centenary of the death of Hieronymus Bosch, and the museum has dedicated a large gallery with works from other collections, entries remain out, exceeding the average of two and a half million annual visitors; legacy of humanity, is a collection whose value is inestimable cash “, expressed in institutional communication Pilar Silva, Flemish art expert and curator of the exhibition was opened by the current Spanish kings.
As his works, El Bosco is an enigma. Although it is uncertain of his funeral on August 9, 1516, after dying in a cholera epidemic, at 66 years approximately estimated that he was born around 1450, not yet know the month or day, in the Dutch town of s-Hertogenbosch, capital of the duchy of Brabant; baptized as Jheronimus van Aken, linked his stage name to the town of his workshop painters, father inherited the business.
Authorship question
never signed a painting; only through the contracts of its prestigious clients it is authenticated thirty pieces and analyzes made painterly style , have ruled out the countless forgeries and imitations their impact originated in the art market. “Due to own mystery of lafigura of Bosch, still doubt the authorship of many of the works attributed to the creator of the Table of the Seven Deadly Sins , a work that has pitted Spanish artistic authorities with Dutch experts helping to ensure that investigations are extended bosquiano pictorial styling, “explains Nativity Pulido, deputy communications of El Prado.
While never left s-Hertogenbosch, where he arrived to integrate the Confraternity of Our Lady, his paintings and triptychs curious were a sensation in European courts; mainly he captivated the Spanish King Philip II, considered the most powerful man of his time and who, dedicated to decorate the bedrooms of known palace as Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, considered since one of the wonders of the world, commissioned Dutch a series of works like the well-known the hay Wain, an allegory of the fatuity of the necessities of life on the long road rolled down the wheel of fate.
“Spain, the daughter of Christianity that ignited the fires of the Inquisition, ended up becoming frame to frame and triptych triptych in the second home of the artist and, since the Spanish museum institution par excellence and the collection of the Catholic kings was founded in 1819 is exhibited in its halls, he established himself as the principal residence of the originality of one of the great painters of the history of mankind “specifies Maria Victoria Chico , professor of medieval art history at the Complutense University of Madrid.
No one is indifferent to their images. Staged by peasants, used to represent the prophet Isaiah proverbs as: “Meat is nothing but grass and its glory is like the flower of the fields.” The humble Dutch eat, get drunk, laugh, dance and fornicate; but El Bosco, a practicing Catholic since childhood, married and childless, took care to remember that God looked down from heaven and scrutinizing what men did. It would be a painter of the Catholic tradition without any distinction, but these images had an atmosphere of dream that is transformed into nightmare; innumerable details of fantastic beings populate the prairies as the bestiary of a paradise where has altered the original biology; contrast between saints and sinners, human ignorance is linked to the heavenly wisdom. “The unconscious, that concept which is the glory of the psychology of the twentieth century and source of Surrealism, had been developing ever since,” concludes Silvia Gonzalez Cerredelo criticism.
A miniaturist
imagination of Hieronymus Bosch, during the dawn of the Renaissance, remained mired in the darkness of the Middle Ages; many critics believe was an extraordinary miniaturist , those craftsmen who were responsible to illustrate the books of the Scriptures and that after the advent of printing were unnecessary, but that the artist became memorable oils.
Attracted by the spiritual drama marked on the face of the artist, the engraver Conelis Cort made the only portrait painter in life, hanging in the workshop of genius, near the market s-Hertogenbosch, today a city ecological, dazzling for its buildings of mirrors, where Bosch is not a museum but the simple homage of the engraving, whose inscription reads: “What do you see, Jerhonimus Bosch, your astonished eyes? Why the pale face? Have you seen Did you appear before the ghosts of Lemuria or flying spectra Érebo? It seems that you have opened the doors of the miser Pluto and the abodes of Tartarus, watching your right hand could paint so well all the secrets of the underworld “.
And instead painted in a scene that exalted faith, Bosch painted his own face in the famous man-tree, representing the devil in the final judgment, and who advances towards darkness where everything burns by design of the Almighty, as she turns a moment to look in the eyes of viewers of his room at the Prado Museum in Madrid.
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