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The cover image is a Hieronymous Bosch woodcut of an English pub. I’m not sure the author has seen the rest of Hieronymous Bosch’s oeuvre. Edit: seems I phras
by robin_reala 2y ago
The cover image is a Hieronymous Bosch woodcut of an English pub.
I’m not sure the author has seen the rest of Hieronymous Bosch’s oeuvre.
Edit: seems I phrased this badly, my point was that a Georgian woodcut circa 1810 is unlikely to be from Bosch (1450 – 1516).
- JohnDeHope 2y ago[flagged]
- robin_reala 2y agoYou’re allowed to think what you like (personally I’m going for an inventive mind, potentially helped by mushrooms or ergot); my point was that a Georgian woodcut circa 1810 is unlikely to be from Bosch (1450 – 1516).
- JohnDeHope 2y agoAhh! That totally did not come through in your earlier comment. I'm sorry I jumped to the conclusion that you were trying to police my art appreciation. That sort of thing really grates on my nerves.
- mitchbob 2y agoLarry was a worldly guy with wide-ranging interests. Were you thinking that if he knew about The Garden of Earthly Delights he wouldn't have chosen a woodcut of a pub for the PUB manual? Bosch has been thought of as a heretic [1] and that could have been part of the appeal for Larry, who pushed against orthodoxies throughout his career. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieronymus_Bosch#Interpretation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieronymus_Bosch#Interpretatio...
- shrubble 2y agoDoesn't really seem out of the ordinary; even in high school in the 1980s the Bosch paintings were well-known.
- rjsw 2y ago... from album covers.
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- The-Old-Hacker 2y agoThis 2020 document says that it's a “cut-and-paste” from a Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827) woodcut print. Which seems much more likely. https://www.saildart.org/simple/booklet/SAILDART_PREVIEW_2020_0330_good.pdf https://www.saildart.org/simple/booklet/SAILDART_PREVIEW_202...