Thursday, March 29, 2012

Hieronymous Bosch




Portrait of Hieronymus Bosch - Hieronymous Bosch - www.hieronymus-bosch.org
Portrait of Hieronymus Bosch

Hieronymus Bosch, born Jeroen Anthonissen van Aken (c. 1450 - August 9, 1516) was an Early Netherlandish painter of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Many of his works depict sin and human moral failings.
Bosch used images of demons, half-human animals and machines to evoke fear and confusion to portray the evil of man.
His works contain complex, highly original, imaginative, and dense use of symbolic figures and iconography, some of which was obscure even in his own time.

The Temptation of St Anthony - Hieronymous Bosch - www.hieronymus-bosch.org
The Temptation of St. Anthony
Triptych of Garden of Earthly Delights (detail 9) c. 1500 - Hieronymous Bosch - www.hieronymus-bosch.org
Triptych of Garden of Earthly Delights. (close-up detail)
Triptych of Temptation of St Anthony (detail) 3 - Hieronymous Bosch - www.hieronymus-bosch.org
Tryptych of Temptation of St. Anthony. Close-up Detail

Garden of Earthly Delights, central panel of the triptych - Hieronymous Bosch - www.hieronymus-bosch.org
The Garden of Earthly Delights

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