Description:
Numerous discoveries, newly attributed artworks, conservation of more than a third of his painted oeuvre,and nearly fifteen thousand images shed new light on the world-renowned artist Hieronymus Bosch. From 2010 to 2016, the interdisciplinary Bosch Research and Conservation Project (BRCP) studied and documented nearly all extant paintings and drawings, in Europe and America, in a standardized way, aiming to increase our knowledge of Early Netherlandish art. Results have been published in the 1100-pages, two-volume monograph and a public website, containing all the high-resolution, standardized photo documentation accessible through state-of-the-art viewers. Furthermore, results of conservation treatments could be first viewed at the exhibition Hieronymus Bosch – Visions of Genius. The Bosch year, commemorating his death in 1516, half a millennium ago, was also the driving factor for many initiatives that had a sociocultural impact far beyond the city of ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Bosch’s hometown that celebrated the temporary return of his works.