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Larry Silver Hieronymus Bosch. Abbeville, 422 pages, $135
Anne Baldassari Picasso: Life with Dora Maar, Love and War, 1935-1945. Flammarion, 320 pages, $75
In The Waning of the Middle Ages, the Dutch historian Johan Huizinga wrote that in Bosch's time "a somber melancholy weighed on people's souls ... It was fashionable to see only suffering and misery, to discover everywhere only signs of decadence and of the near end--in short, to condemn the times or to despise them." Bosch, an anguished moralist, was painting in 1500, and the semi-millenarian mood may well have given impetus to his apocalyptic vision.
Bosch's training and travels remain ...