Cees Nooteboom
A Dark Premonition
Journeys to Hieronymus Bosch
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Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516) is the most enigmatic artist of Early Modern Age. Inventing monstrous creatures, grotesque ogres, and bizarre chimeras walking abroad between this world and netherworld. Carrying Bosch’s paintings in his mind and memory for 60 years. Cees Nooteboom describes his journeys to seven of them that he visited and studied in Lisbon, Madrid, Ghent, Rotterdam and ‘s-Hertogenbosch.
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