2. Foreplay|Endgame - Joseph Koerner
Professor Joseph Koerner is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of History of Art and Architecture and Professor of Germanic Languages and Literature at Harvard University, where he is also a senior fellow at the prestigious Society of Fellows.Koerner is one of the most renowned art historians and critics working today, and the world’s leading specialist on Northern Renaissance and 19th Century Art, in particular German and Netherlandish painting. He has written multiple books, amongst them volumes on Caspar David Friedrich, Albrecht Durer and recently Bosch and Brueghel. Koerner has also written and presented various documentaries including ‘Northern Renaissance’ and ‘Vienna: City of Dreams’, both produced by the BBC. In 2018 he released his most personal film yet: ‘The Burning Child’, which traces his search for the fate of his grandparents and their Vienna home, known only through a 1944 painting by his exiled father.Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights hi-res: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Earthly_DelightsJoseph Koerner's faculty page: https://scholar.harvard.edu/jkoerner/homeJoseph Koerner's Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_KoernerThe Vienna Project: https://viennaproject.fas.harvard.edu/Review of 'Bosch and Bruegel: From Enemy Painting to Everyday Life' in the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/01/bosch-bruegel-joseph-leo-koernerNOTES:Bosch's Last Judgement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Judgment_(Bosch,_Vienna)Pieter Bruegel the Elder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Bruegel_the_ElderThe strawberry/Madroño tree: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbutus_unedoThe Cluster F Theory Podcast is edited by Julian Mayers at Yada Yada.Subscribe for free to The Cluster F Theory Podcast. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theclusterftheory.substack.com