I am totally blown away by these negative reviews, I have several books on BOSCH and this is one of the best, to begin with it is complete, and has many very nice illustrations of the drawings, which is rare, have no hesitation on this book it is filled with lots of great BOSCH, do not listen to the other critics...this perfectly fine book on the artist.
The Best Recent Introduction to Bosch
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
I have read most of the monographs on Bosch, and this represents the best recent effort to present Bosch's works on an introductory level. Koldeweij examines Bosch's obscure biography; Vermet discusses the problems of dating and attribution of Bosch's works; Vandenbroeck looks at some of the themes in Bosch's iconography. The only problem with the book is a lack of imagery details. The reproductions are beautiful, but there are not enough of them. The publishers should have made the book much larger with more images. The publishers should have used Charles de Tolnay's huge monograph for a model. As of yet, there is no definitive Bosch monograph that combines Tolnay's amount of image examples and Dirk Bax's exhaustive iconographic analyses. But if I had to pick a good introduction to Bosch and his works, this would be it.
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