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Battle of the Birds and Mammals
Jheronimus Bosch
Bosch Project
Battle of the Birds and Mammals
techniek: Pen and Ink on Paper, 20.3 x 29 cm
The battle between birds and mammals has started in earnest here. Amid the chaos of a battlefield strewn with wings, legs, and heads, an owl with outstretched wings is discernible at the far left. The birds are obviously the aggressors as they come marching into the frame from behind a hill at top left. Although the battle’s results are far from certain, it looks bad for the birds: left of center the griffin, the birds’ standard bearer, is dying as its head is bitten off by a lion. |  |
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Literatuur en bronnenpublicaties
Matthijs Ilsink, Jos Koldeweij, Ron Spronk, Luuk Hoogstede, Robert G. Erdmann, Rik Klein Gotink, Hanneke Nap and Daan Veldhuizen, Hieronymus Bosch, Painter and Draughtsman. Catalogue Raisonné, Brussels 2016, pp. 516-521.
Stefan Fischer, Hieronymus Bosch: Complete Works, Cologne 2013, pp. 272-273.
Fritz Koreny, Hieronymus Bosch: die Zeichnungen: Werkstatt und Nachfolge bis zum Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts: catalogue raisonne´, Turnhout 2012, pp. 162-169.
Fritz Koreny, ‘Hieronymus Bosch - Überlegungen zu Stil und Chronologie’, Jahrbuch des Kunsthistorischen Museums Wien 4/5 (2002-2003), pp. 177-181.
Stephanie Buck, Die niederländischen Zeichnungen des 15. Jahrhunderts im Berliner Kupferstichkabinett. Kritischer Katalog, Turnhout 2001, pp. 230-234.
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