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This comprehensive book, published almost 500 years after Bosch's death, presents an overview of the artist's complete oeuvre, with photographs of recently restored paintings. Discover Bosch's imagined inventions in beautiful reproductions with extensive detail. Art historian and Bosch expert Stefan Fischer investigates what made Bosch and his paintings so enormously influential. Bosch, whose real name was Jheronimus van Aken, was much copied and imitated: the number of extant works by Bosch's followers is ten times greater than that of the master himself. Today, only twenty paintings and eight drawings have been attributed with certainty to Bosch's oeuvre. He is still regarded as a visionary, a painter of dreams and nightmares, and the painter par excellence of hell and demons.