The Jheronimus Bosch Art Center invites you to participate in the second international Jheronimus Bosch conference, this time centering on the theme ‘The Sources of Bosch’. Scholars from various countries will share all current knowledge on the Medieval artist with you during the three-day conference, which is to be held in ’s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands on 23, 24 and 25 May 2007.
The conference ‘The Sources of Bosch’ will deal with the inspiration behind Bosch’s fantastic works of art: visual sources as well as texts and sermons, political and social events. Did the great fire of 1463 have a lasting influence on the then very young Jheronimus? Do mystical or theological texts hold the key to his art? Did he himself experience infernal visions? Did music and theatre play a role? Did Bosch really see Italian paintings as a model to be followed or did they represent rules that were to be transgressed?
