Word: bosch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ALMOST nothing is known of Hieronymus Bosch beyond the facts that he lived in 15th-century Burgundy, belonged to the austere lay Brotherhood of Our Lady, and painted some of the world's greatest pictures. He was perhaps better understood in an earlier age than at present. In 1605 a Spanish monk wrote that "Bosch alone has the courage to depict the inner and the essential . . . His paintings are not farces but like books of great wisdom." Today Bosch is called the "father of surrealism" and admired chiefly as a convincing fantasist...
...Boston Museum of Fine Arts' recently acquired Ecce Homo (right) helps correct that impression. Unlike Bosch's better-known canvases of nightmare torture and lust, it presents the actual: a turning point in human history. Bosch packed the expressions of the foreground crowd with cruelty and pride and made Pilate a picture of complacency, but these purely human horrors convince the mind as well as the eye. Christ, bound and crowned with thorns, dominates the scene by His gentleness, and speaks through it to the heart...
...BETTY BOSCH Columbus, Ohio...
Damaged Goods. In Toledo, three youths arrested for stealing a car told Inspector Anthony A. Bosch that he should take action against the owner because the windshield wipers didn't work, the speedometer showed 94 when they were really doing 85, and the brakes were "awful." Clue. In Del Paso Heights, Calif., after being robbed of $1,470 by a man and a girl. Filling Station Attendant L. B. Rothwell offered police one solid clue: "She was very, very well-built-I mean, she had one of the best figures I've ever seen." Psychic...
...exhibit 20 at a time (admission free). Over the truck's P.A. system came 17th century harpsichord music to set the mood for the show, followed by a recorded lecture. On exhibit were sixteen 15th to 17th century Dutch and Flemish paintings, including such masterpieces as Hieronymous Bosch's Temptation of St. Anthony, Aelbert Cuyp's Horsemen Halting on a Road, Pieter Bruegel's The Carnival. Next week the artmobile will take off on a statewide tour (possibly three years) with stops planned so that no Virginian will have to travel more than 15 miles...