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Dürer and Bosch are contradictory. Dürer is all delicacy. He is extremely delicate, having constructed his paintings with a facility that is impossible to divine, to the point where it seems almost impossible to believe that any human being might be able to create such a precious gem with such simple materials. It’s a glaze, but it’s convincing and expressive at the same time. And layer by layer, glaze by glaze he creates figures that are extremely expressive, based on a very German sentiment.
Bosch has another way of constructing, one in which he appears to be fighting between two worlds. It’s a ‘yes’, but also a ‘no’. It’s a mixed technique: it’s like tempera, but it’s also like oil.
She works as a restorer at the Museo del Prado, participating in major projects such as the restoration of Las meninas in 1984, directed by John Brealey (from the Metropolitan Museum of Art) and the restoration of the Adam and Eve panels by Dürer.
Interview recorded on November 29, 2017
