Great Russian novelist, dramatist, satirist, founder of the so-called critical realism in Russian literature, best-known for his novel MERTVYE DUSHI I-II (1842, Dead Souls). Gogol's prose is characterized by imaginative power and linguistic playfulness. As an exposer of grotesque in human nature, Gogol could be called the Hieronymus Bosch of
This morality-based work is one of Bosch’s most enigmatic, complex, and beautiful creations and was made near the end of his life. It was acquired at the auction of Prior don Fernando, the illegitimate son of the Duke of Alba, and was taken to the Monastery of El Escorial in 1593. It was deposited in the Prado Museum by Patrimonio Nacional in
12. Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) The Garden of Earthly Delights by Bosch, 1490-1510, via Sotheby’s Hieronymus Bosch was the most important figure in the Early Netherlandish school of painting. His haunting and fascinating artwork achieved great success during his lifetime.Hieronymus Bosch, active in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, remains one of the most important and popular of the Netherlandish painters. He was anomalous in that he largely forwent realistic depictions of nature, human existence and perspective, while his work is almost entirely free of Italian influences.
Nils Büttner. Reaktion Books, Sep 24, 2023 - Biography & Autobiography - 160 pages. An accessible biography of the celebrated early Netherlandish painter, now in paperback. In his lifetime the early Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch was famous for his phantasmagoric images, and today his name is synonymous with the infernal.