Beautiful, Beastly, Bizarre: the Art of Hieronymus Bosch

Forthcoming lecture of the Chiswick Decorative & Fine Arts Society

The next lecture of the Chiswick Decorative & Fine Arts Society takes place on Thursday 14 July 2016 at the Polish Centre, Hammersmith. Paula Nuttall , Director of the V & A Medieval and Renaissance Year course will be the lecturer.

Hieronymus Bosch’s (c.1455-1516) nightmarish monsters and demons, his bizarre allegories, and the amorous exploits in his  Garden of Earthly Delights have intrigued viewers for centuries. Little is known about this remarkable painter, although it has been claimed that he was a member of a heretical sect, a dabbler in alchemy and even a drug-user! This lecture unravels the meanings of Bosch’s enigmatic paintings in the context of his own time, explaining them in terms of social satire, medieval folklore and pre-Reformation spirituality, while also revealing the beauty and inventiveness of his images.

  Paula Nuttall  is Director of V&A Medieval & Renaissance Year course. Author of 'From Flanders to Florence: the Impact of Netherlandish Painting 1400-1500' (Yale, 2004). Also lectures for the Courtauld Institute, Christie's Education, the Art Fund and the National Gallery. Formerly lecturer at the British Institute of Florence.

8pm (Bar from 7.30pm) Non-members £8 on door 

(refundable against membership)

www.chdfas.org.uk

Chiswick Decorative & Fine 

Arts Society 

Lectures take place on the second Thursday of the month at 8pm, excepting January and

 August, in the Malinova Room at The Polish Centre (POSK),

 238-246 King Street,

 Hammersmith, London W6 0R

July 7, 2016