Delights: A Story Of Hieronymus BoschAuthor :
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Published : Tuesday 13 August 2024
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In Guy Colwells first full graphic novel in over 30 years, we see one painter, Colwell himself, consider another, Hieronymus Bosch, and the story behind the latters most notable work told in sequential panels. The known details of Boschs life, and the commissioning of his enormous triptych, The Garden of Earthly Delights, are scant. Colwell takes the facts of Boschs time and setting and constructs a tale of a man and artist torn equally among piety, creativity, and commerce. In Colwells version of Jheronimus van Aken (Boschs real name), he is an artist paid well by local dukes to paint a vision of the world before the fall, but will the religious leaders of his village see it as celebrating Gods creation, or fatally corrupted by sensuality? And what of the increasing numbers of young models needed to depict pre-apple innocence? This imaginatively conceived graphic biography is Colwells crowning achievement in a cartooning career, begun in the underground comix movement of th
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