Join Gregory Harwell, a lecturer in the UCLA Department of Art History, for a talk about the art, religion and influence of Dutch Renaissance painter Hieronymous Bosch, on Thursday, March 5, 12 p.m. in 306 Royce Hall.
The immediate impact in the Eastern Netherlands of Rhenish mystic Denis the Carthusian extended to the visual arts in the work of the Hertogenbosch painter Hieronymus Bosch. It was through the encyclopedic commentaries and speculations of Denis that Bosch acquired his profound understanding of theology. Harwell will discuss how Denis’ interpretation of St. Augustine’s commentary on Genesis provided the iconographical material for Bosch’s Prado triptych, "Garden of Earthly Delights."
Harwell is a lecturer on the northern Renaissance and baroque whose research focuses on the intersections between visual and literary culture and between art and science in the Early Modern Era.
To register for the free lecture, email the Center for the Study of Religion at crs@humnet@ucla.edu. For more information on this event and others, visit the center's website.