God in the Details: Bosch and Judgment(s)

Pieter Bruegel’s Symbolic Highlands in the Lowlands

“…This process of thoughtful viewing has a history, especially in landscape painting, where marginal or obscure motifs challenge the viewer not to take what is seen at face value but rather to see through one's initial visual perception to discern a deeper meaning. 16 Bruegel's Emmaus print, however, does not depend upon contrasting highlands and lowlands; rather, it establishes the potential spiritual significance of even a humble countryside setting (which Bruegel would later explore, when he situated a number of religious events in contemporary Flemish village settings, such as his 1566 Census at Bethlehem in Brussels).…”

Information sensorium as a framework to read images: an interdisciplinary investigation on "reading images" using the Wayfarer Triptych by Jheronimus Bosch as a case study

“…As a triptych, the paintings illustrate every man's lifelong journey and choices between good and evil. Demonts (1919), in his Information sensorium as a framework to read images writing on the Ship of Fools, already suspected that the painting belonged to one of the panels, while other scholars followed suit and suggested the placement of the paintings in the triptych for varied stylistic and morphological reasons (Adhémar, 1962;Baldass, 1968;Brand Philip, 1958;de Tolnay, 1965;Eisler, 1961;Hartau, 2003Hartau, , 2005aLammertse & Boersma, 2003;Morganstern, 1984;Reuterswärd, 1970;Rossiter, 1973;Silver, 2001;Venturi, 1945) 20 .…”