Now available in a new edition, this book explores Hieronymus Bosch's masterpiece "Garden of Earthly Delights". Few paintings inspire the kind of intense study and speculation as "Garden of Earthly Delights", the world-famous triptych by Netherlandi...

"Art history after modernism" does not only mean that art looks different today; it also means that our discourse on art has taken a different direction, if it is safe to say it has taken a direction at all. So begins Hans Belting's brilliant, icon...

Before the Renaissance and Reformation, holy images were treated not as "art" but as objects of veneration which possessed the tangible presence of the Holy. In this magisterial book, Hans Belting traces the long history of the sacral image and its c...