Thursday, 6 March 2014

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. 




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