Beyond the Devilish Details: Looking Deeper into Bosch

In this public lecture, Ron Spronk, professor of art history at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, will share discoveries from the Bosch Research and Conservation Project. Since 2010, this interdisciplinary team of conservators, curators, technicians, and art historians has examined paintings and drawings by Hieronymus Bosch in the lead-up to the 500th anniversary of the artist’s death, and in conjunction with a large exhibition at the Noordbrabants Museum in ’s-Hertogenbosch. The research has been published in a two-volume monograph, co-authored by Spronk, and in a digital resource. A Q&A with Spronk and Harvard Art Museums research curator Danielle Carrabino will follow the talk.

This lecture is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Beyond Bosch: The Afterlife of a Renaissance Master in Print, on view at the Harvard Art Museums through May 8, 2016.

Free admission

The lecture will take place in Menschel Hall, Lower Level.

Support for the lecture is provided by the M. Victor Leventritt Fund, which was established through the generosity of the wife, children, and friends of the late M. Victor Leventritt, Harvard Class of 1935. The purpose of the fund is to present outstanding scholars of the history and theory of art to the Harvard and Greater Boston communities.

Beyond Bosch: The Afterlife of a Renaissance Master in Print has been organized by the Saint Louis Art Museum. The Harvard Art Museums presentation of Beyond Bosch has been made possible in part by support from the Rabb Family Exhibitions Fund and an anonymous gift in memory of Melvin R. Seiden.