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Delights: A Story of Hieronymus Bosch

Delights: A Story of Hieronymus Bosch

Colwell, Guy

Hardcover

ArtistsGeneral Graphic Novels

Publisher Price: $29.99

ISBN10: 1683969529
ISBN13: 9781683969525
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Published: Aug 13 2024
Pages: 168
Weight: 1.85
Height: 0.80 Width: 8.10 Depth: 10.80
Language: English
In Guy Colwell's first full graphic novel in over 30 years, we see one painter, Colwell himself, consider another, Hieronymus Bosch, and the story behind the latter's most notable work told in sequential panels. The known details of Bosch's life, and the commissioning of his enormous triptych, The Garden of Earthly Delights, are scant. Colwell takes the facts of Bosch's time and setting and constructs a tale of a man and artist torn equally among piety, creativity, and commerce.

In Colwell's version of Jheronimus van Aken (Bosch's real name), he is an artist paid well by local dukes to paint a vision of the world before the fall, but will the religious leaders of his village see it as celebrating God's creation, or fatally corrupted by sensuality? And what of the increasing numbers of young models needed to depict pre-apple innocence?

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