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- NAME: Hieronymus Bosch
- OCCUPATION: Painter
- BIRTH DATE: c. 1450
- DEATH DATE: August 09, 1516
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Duchy of Brabant
- AKA: Jerome Van Aeken
- AKA: Jeroen Anthoniszoon
- AKA: Jheronimus Bos
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Hieronymus Bosch was a European painter of the late Middle Ages. His two most famous works are The Garden of Earthly Delights and The Temptation of St. Anthony.
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Synopsis
Hieronymus Bosch, born in 1450, was a northern European painter of the late Middle Ages. His work utilizes striking and sometimes seemingly bizarre iconography. The Critics and society during his time often felt his works were nonsensical. Today, art critics view Bosch as a highly insightful painter who plunged to the depths of the human mind and depicted grand symbols of life and creation.
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(born 1450, 's-Hertogenbosch, Brabant [now in the Netherlands]—died Aug. 9, 1516, 's-Hertogenbosch) brilliant and original northern European painter of the late Middle Ages whose work reveals an unusual iconography of a complex and individual style. Although at first recognized as a highly imaginative “creator of devils” and a powerful inventor of seeming nonsense full of satirical meaning, Bosch demonstrated insight into the depths of the mind and an ability to depict symbols of life and creation.
Bosch was a pessimistic and stern moralist who had neither illusions about the rationality of human nature nor confidence in the kindness of a world that had been corrupted by man's presence in it. His paintings are sermons, addressed often to initiates and consequently difficult to translate. Unable to unlock the mystery of the artist's works, critics at first believed that he must have been affiliated with secret sects. Although the themes of his work were religious, his choice of symbols to represent the temptation and eventual ensnarement of man in earthly evils caused many critics to view Bosch as a practitioner of the occult arts. More recent scholarship views Bosch as a talented artist who possessed deep insight into human character and as one of the first artists to represent abstract concepts in his work. A number of exhaustive interpretations of Bosch's work have been put forth in recent years, but there remain many obscure details.
An exact chronology of Bosch's surviving work is difficult because, of the approximately 35 to 40 paintings attributed to him, only 7 are signed and none are dated. There exists little documentary information on the early life of the artist, other than the fact that he was the son and grandson of accomplished painters. His name does appear on the register of the Brotherhood of Our Lady, located in the city of his birth, and there is mention of him in official records from 1486 until the year of his death, when he was acclaimed an Insignis pictor (“distinguished painter”). In addition to painting he undertook decorative works and altarpieces and executed designs for stained glass.
Works attributed to his youthful period show an awkwardness in drawing and composition and brushwork somewhat limited in its scope. Such paintings as “The Cure of Folly,” “Crucifixion,” “The Adoration of the Magi,” “The Seven Deadly Sins,” “The Marriage at Cana,” “Ecce Homo,” and “The Conjurer” are representative of this period. The presence of certain motifs, expanded in the more sophisticated works of the artist's middle period, and a limited
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