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...great 15th century painter Hieronymus Bosch was much obsessed with sin and hell; his best-known paintings are populated by griffons, scarabs and demons in a fantastic landscape in which sinners ride on mice, embrace pigs, are bound, speared and tortured by horrifying monsters. Lustful monks and covetous priests are spied on by lurking demons. Only rarely, as in The Crowning with Thorns in London's National Gallery, did Bosch allow himself to show the tenderness that was the obverse of his savage indignation about the human Bettmann Arc condition...
FLEMISH PAINTING FROM BOSCH TO RUBENS (Skira; $25) has 112 eye-filling color reproductions, mostly good. Text contains a maximum of mere information and a minimum of thought, as is all too common with art books. The gigantic hero, overshadowing both Bosch and Rubens should of course be Bruegel, but he occupies only 22 pages out of 202, and his essential mysticism is barely hinted. But the pictures show the Bruegel, as Pliny said of Apelles, "painted many things that are really unpaintable...
...Pergamon Altar, a vast Hellenistic masterpiece commissioned by King Eumenes II in Asia Minor about 180 B.C. ¶ A roomful of Botticelli drawings illustrating the Divine Comedy. ¶ Hundreds of top-rank Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek, Roman and Chinese statues and ceramics. ¶ Cranach's Judith and Holofernes, Bosch's small Temptation of St. Anthony, Hals's Mulatto...
...MISSILE MERGER is set for Northrop Aircraft (sales: $255 million) and American Bosch Arma (sales: $134 million). Deal would link Northrop's production of entire planes (T38 trainer) and missiles (Snark) with American Bosch's output of components...
...Litton antennas help control flights; in universities, Litton digital desk computers solve calculus jawbreakers. Litton claims to be the nation's biggest seller of desk calculating machines, the broadest supplier of TV replacement transformers (more than 900 different models), one of the two largest makers (along with American Bosch Arma) of inertial guidance systems for missiles...