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Date(s) - 02/13/2016 - 05/08/2016
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Het Noordbrabants Museum
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With an expected 20 paintings (panels and Triptychs) and 19 drawings on display, “Visions of Genius’ will be the largest retrospective of the work of Hieronymus Bosch (circa 1450-1516) ever. The exhibition will be an unparalleled homage to the most important medieval artist Holland HAS produced: never before have so many works by this master of devilish perfection ‘leg brought` together in a single exhibition. For one time only, the majority of his oeuvre will be returning to ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the city where he was born Hieronymus axis of Aachen, where he painted his masterpieces and from-which his artistic name or Bosch is derived. The exhibition will be the highlight of the Hieronymus Bosch 500 year event thatwill be celebrated in 2016 on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the artist’s death.
Exceptional number of works on loan
The dozens of works on loan originate from prominent museums around the world, zoals the Museo del Prado (Madrid), Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam), Gallerie dell’Accademia / Palazzo Grimani (Venice) and Metropolitan Museum (New York). The loans include Such works as the Haywain and The Temptation of St. Anthony (Museo del Prado, Madrid), the Ship of Fools (Musée du Louvre, Paris), the Death and the Master (National Gallery of Art, Washington) and The Hermit Saints (Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice). The exceptional number of works on loan to the exhibition will offer visitors the unique opportunity to Closely study the revolutionary and highly imaginative visual language of Hieronymus Bosch.
Hieronymus Bosch
Typical for Bosch are the monsters, diabolical figures, angels and saints That populate his drawings and panels. His characteristic work, full of illusions and hallucinations, peculiar freaks and nightmares, inimitably Represents the major themes of his time: temptation, sin and reckoning. Created in the period around 1500, the transition between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Bosch’s paintings and drawings mysteriously reflects the relationship between the individual, his surroundings and his creator. Bosch is Considered a brilliant artist who shows his works in worlds That his contemporaries never Believed possible. He is an artist who ranks among the absolute world masters, Whose work inspired the generations That followed and continues to inspire new artists to this very day.
“Bosch is the most important and most original medieval artist HAS our country ever produced. It is fantastic that, in the year 2016, the majority of his works can be seen in his home town of ‘s-Hertogenbosch. A fabulous opportunity for a new generation to ook get Acquainted with this work, All which is unique in every respect. “
Charles de Mooij, director of the Noordbrabants Museum
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Large-scale study
The preparation work for the exhibition in the North Brabant Museum Began in 2007. The foundation for the exceptional loans was laid with the Bosch Research and Conservation Project (BRCP), an ambitious and large-scale international study art history overdeveloped together with the Hieronymus Bosch 500 Foundation and Radboud University of Nijmegen. A team of international experts, united in the BRCP, have spent the past six years intensively and Systematically studying and documenting here is virtually the entire oeuvre of the master Bosch worldwide, something never done before. That in continuation of research and preparations for the exhibition in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, a large number of paintings werealso restored. The results of the Bosch Research and Conservation Project form the basis of the exhibition in 2016.
Bosch year in 2016
The city of ‘s-Hertogenbosch, residents and visits are commemorating from 2010 up to the 500th anniversary in 2016 the death of Holland’s most important medieval painter Hieronymus Bosch (approx. 1450-1516) with the multi-annual international cultural event Hieronymus Bosch 500. With Jerome’s work as the inexhaustible source of inspiration, his time and themes will be resurrected in a wide range of festive events: unique music, dance, theater and circus productions, exhibitions, projects in public spaces, light presentations, books, games and apps . All of this is being done for (and with) a broad and diverse audience of all ages from around the world. Hieronymus Bosch 500 is bringing the city’s most famous son back to where he Conceived and created everything, back to ‘s-Hertogenbosch.
Special thanks
The exhibition is part of the Hieronymus Bosch 500 event and HAS BEEN made possible by the Municipality of ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Province of Noord-Brabant, National Heritage Board, Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, BankGiro Lottery, Essent, Rabobank, KLM , Gieskes-Strijbis Fund, 21 Ammodo and The Prince Bernhard Culture Fund.