Sunday, July 09, 2006

(4) The Pedlar

The Pedlar is most likely not by Hieronymus Bosch if it is based on a picture in the Dresden Codex. This means that my own previously published article on it is incorrect and incomplete ("The Good Thief imagined as a peddler," in Source 17:2 (1998), p. 4-14). Other paintings on wood from the same tree according to the recent dendrochronological studies might either be copies of paintings by Hieronymus Bosch, or new images, like The Pedlar.

(3) The Prints of Hieronymus Bosch

This blog is a continuation of The Prints of Hieronymus Bosch, published in 2002. In the book a few prints were still attributed to the architect Alart du Hameel, but it now seems more likely that Alart du Hameel was not the author of any prints.

(2) West Indies Landscape

The West Indies Landscape, usually attributed to Jan Mostaert, is more likely from the seventeenth century, most likely from c. 1642 and painted to mark the 150th anniversary of Columbus's first landing. It portrays the Dutch and English adventures in New Netherlands and New England in a negative light.
It is true that it is based on a description by Karel van Mander of a lost Mostaert painting, but it appears to have been painted after Van Mander's death as an hommage, to call attention to his having translated Girolamo Benzoni's History of the New World.

(1) Garden of Delights/Jardín de las Delicias

The Garden of Delights/El Jardín de las Delicias cannot be by Hieronymus Bosch (d. 1516) since it includes a Nahuatl chronology from 1519 to 1528. It is not a copy either, since the dates are too large to have been added without making extensive changes to the composition.