Table of Contents

Preface; Interpretation; Preamble; Glosses on the Garden of Earthly Delights Double Images in Bosch's Epigones; The Mouth of Hell; Upper and Under-World; The Creator, Man and Woman; Visual Typology; The Fountain of Life; Mnemonic Imagery; The Root of Evil; Wonders of Nature; The Burgeoning of Evil; Somnium and Insomnium; Marching Mountains; L'Espace de l'Artifice; Courtly Amusement: Park Hesdin; Entremets; Courtly Love; L'Etat Sauvage; Ye Shall Know Them by Their Fruits; Through a Glass, Darkly; A Glimpse of Hell; The Tree-Man; The Region of Dissemblance; Lucifer's Rule; The Land of Unlikeness; Spectators and Speculators; Princely Mirror; Notes; Bibliography; Credits.

About the Author

Reindert Falkenburg studies the visual arts primarily from the perspective of image/viewer relationships. His scholarly interest regard works by 16th-century Dutch and Flemish masters, such as Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel. Professor Falkenburg currently works as Dean of Humanities & Arts at NYU Abu Dhabi. He served as chair of the Art History Department at Leiden University in The Netherlands and previous to that was Professor of Western Art and Religion at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, Deputy Director of the Netherlands Institute for Art History and Research Fellow of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences.