Alastair Smart

Preaching in pictures

According to Nils Büttner, Bosch’s personal life was dull and unadventurous. So what inspired those visions of fiendish torture — or orgies of free love?

issue 13 August 2016

  • Hieronymus Bosch: Visions and Nightmares

    Nils Büttner, translated from the German by Anthony Matthews

    Reaktion, pp. 208

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