Hieronymus Bosch- Art

Hieronymus Bosch

Bosch's work included incredible attention to detail and often surreal imagery. Most of his works depicted religious concepts and a lot of his work showed the many sins,flaws,wrong doings and there out comes of human beings,

''The cure of Folly'' is one of Boschs first most known pieces and it dates around 1494. The image depicts the misguided medical facilities of the day and how laughable they were. The inscription reads...

Master, cut away the stone

my name is Lubbert Das"

Through out his entire career he focussed mostly on religious topics and I find this one the most intriguing. This is The haywain a triptych by him, it was thought to be finished around 1500. In the first pannel Adam and Eve are depicted in the garden of Eden and all is well and beautiful, in the second pannel things are getting a little hectic and people are shown engaging in sinful behaviour. in the third panel hell is depicted to show what would happen and where you'd end up if you acted as the people are in the second panel.

Hieronymus Bosch- Life

Hieronymus Bosch

Bosch was a painter from the Netherlands. Although he was not born with this name he was born under the name Jheronimus van Aken and went by many other names during his career. He made his name by mostly by depicting religious concepts. Not a lot is known of Bosch as he left behind no diaries or lettres of any kind. Everything that we know about him has been acquired from accounts from other people. Nothing is known about his methods whilst creating his pieces or the way he was in his daily life, what is even more stressing is that we do not know the exact reason behind his works or if there was any hidden reason for his obsession with painting religious and moral concepts.

Boschs grandfather and father were both artists although none of there works have survived to the present day it is though that one of these men may have taught Hieronymus what he knows and may have even influenced him in what he painted. In 1488 he joined the brotherhood of our lady. The brotherhood was an arch-conservative religious group consisting of members from Boschs home town and also members from all over Europe. Hieronymus married Aleyt Goyaerts van den Meerveen in-between 1479 and 1481, they moved to a nearby town and inherited land and property from her father. The brotherhood recorded Boschs death in 1516.