Prof. Dr. Reindert Falkenburg (New York University, Abu Dhabi) ist im Sommer 2012 Fellow der Kolleg-Forschergruppe.
Vortrag
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Mittwoch, 27. Juni 2012
18.00 Uhr
Kunsthistorisches Institut der Freien Universität
Koserstr. 20
Hörsaal B
The Land of Unlikeness.
“Speculations” on Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights.
This presentation offers a reconstruction of the historical viewership of Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights. It discusses both the mode of viewing for which painting was created and the circle of its original viewers – a group of high nobles at the Burgundian court, ca. 1500. Speculation is at the heart of this reconstruction, not only because it is based on a combination of pictorial and circumstantial evidence, but also, and more importantly, because ‘speculation’ understood as a particular late-medieval mode of interpretation defines the response of the painting’s original viewers.