In his lifetime the early Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch was famous for his phantasmagoric images, and today his name is synonymous with the infernal. The creator of expansive tableaus of fantastic and hellish scenes where any devil not dancing is too busy eating human souls he has been as equally misunderstood by history as his paintings have. In this book, Nils Buttner draws on a wealth of historical documents not to mention Bosch s paintings to offer a fresh and insightful look at one of history s most peculiar artists on the five-hundredth anniversary of his death.
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Today most of us enjoy the work of famed Renaissance artist Michelangelo by perusing art books or strolling along the galleries of a museum and the luckier of us have had a chance to see his extraordinary frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. But as Bernadine Barnes shows in this book, even a visit to a well-preserved historical sight doesn t quite afford the experience the artist intended us to have. Bringing together the latest historical research, she offers us an accurate account of how Michelangelo s art would have been seen in its own time.
As Barnes shows, Michelangelo s...

Niccolo Guicciardini's enlightening biography offers an accessible introduction to Newton's celebrated work in mathematics, optics and astronomy and to how Newton viewed these scientific fields in relation to his quest for the deepest secrets of the universe, matter theory and religion.

A beautifully illustrated monograph on the innovative and at times controversial sculptor Donatello.

A new account of the controversial alchemist, physician and social radical known as Paracelsus.

A full account of Renaissance artist Raphael's prodigious yet short-lived career.