76 Color Paintings of Hieronymus Bosch - Dutch Renaissance Painter (c. 1450 – August 9, 1516)

Bosch. The 5th Centenary Exhibition

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He holds a candle while he is shown a crucifix and receives extreme unction. In his paintings, Bosch represented the obsessions and anxieties of men and women of his own time in a masterly manner. The false doctor wears a funnel — symbol of wisdom — upside-down on his head, which transforms it into a symbol of madness. The scene thus acquires sexual connotations. The man is not being cured of his madness but castrated. Its activities included organising festivals, processions and theatrical performances in honour of the Virgin Mary.

It is likely that Bosch was also associated with the Brotherhood of the Common Life, another of the many religious associations of the day that promoted an exemplary life, charity and purity of spirit in the face of the widespread corruption and hypocrisy of religious life.

The lovers inside the glass sphere probably refer to the Flemish proverb that runs: Bosch must have been an educated man with a good knowledge of the literature of his day, given that many of his works are based on literary sources. He also reflected popular wisdom by illustrating proverbs and traditions.

Many of his paintings are organised in the manner of stage sets. The influence of the theatre is also evident in the adornments to the clothes worn by the figures and in the importance given to masks in many of his compositions. Bosch enjoyed enormous success in his lifetime and his works were regularly copied and faked. While his religious works are always easy to identify and in general to interpret, his allegorical compositions require a profound knowledge of the society of his day and the vices and virtues of his contemporaries, which the artist often mocked, showing viewers their habits, customs and moral weaknesses.

Bosch was undoubtedly a man of his time and one also gifted with a powerful imagination and rich inventive abilities. Emerging from between two ears, it represents those deaf to the message of salvation. Aged only 12 or 13, he was never able to forget this terrible sight. Jheronimus van Aken ca. The market square, where the artist lived between and , was a meeting point for all social classes and the setting for a range of everyday, festive, religious and secular events.

Bosch received commissions from individuals such as Peter van Os, another sworn member of this brotherhood, and from the numerous ecclesiastical institutions existing at that date. The absence of a local tradition and of a guild of painters encouraged Bosch to create an original style.

Paintings by Hieronymus Bosch

While his starting point was the work of earlier painters such as Jan van Eyck, he broke away from them in terms of both technique and iconography. The figure of Christ is the principal focus in these works, reflecting the spiritual trend known as the devotio moderna , which aimed to transmit to the faithful the practice of the imitation of Christ. The subject most represented by Bosch is that of the Adoration of the Magi, through which he expressed the universality of the Redemption. The pagans — the Magi — undertake a long journey to adore the Messiah, whom the Jews rejected.

While the artist remained relatively close to tradition in these works, he nonetheless reformulated them in his own style, incorporating symbolic elements in the backgrounds and buildings, and in the figure of the Antichrist in the central panel of the Prado Adoration triptych. These depictions include Job and some of the Apostles, who were honoured as saints at this period. Other images depict female protector saints such as Agnes, Catherine and Mary Magdalene, or titular saints such as Wilgefortis, the bearded virgin venerated in the Low Countries.

Among male saints the most frequently depicted some enjoyed particularly widespread devotion, including Saint Christopher, protector against sudden death. Saint Jerome and above all Saint Anthony Abbot, the patron saint of Bosch and his father, were examples for the faithful. Rather, they are inventions of the artist who was guided by his imagination, as evident in his depiction of the demons.

Displayed in close proximity to The Haywain are various other triptychs by Bosch in which Paradise and Hell are depicted on the lateral panels, albeit represented in different ways. Traditionally, the central panel of such triptychs included the Last Judgment, as in the example in Bruges. For the first time in art and in a totally original manner, in the centre of The Haywain Triptych and flanked by the panels of The Garden of Eden and Hell , Bosch located a haywain.

Using this motif, he showed how, in their desire to give themselves over to the pleasures of the senses and to acquire material goods, men and women of all social classes are deceived by demons who lead them to hell. The haywain thus functions as a mirror, in which whoever looks into it can see his own image, offering the lesson that in order to avoid eternal punishment, it is less a matter of doing good than of avoiding evil throughout life.

As a result, the work illustrates exempla contraria or examples to be avoided. Also in this section are two drawings from Berlin, the first of a walking grotesque head and a small toad-monster, and the second, a studio product, of a scene of Hell, which thus connects with another studio drawing on display, The Ship of Fools in Flames , loaned from Vienna.

These technical images enable visitors to appreciate the changes Bosch made between the start of the under-drawing and the completion of the pictorial surface. Also displayed here is the remarkable Tree-Man drawing from the Albertina. The X-radiograph shows details of the support and the paint layers that are not visible to the naked eye.

Given that this image passes through all the paint layers, the scenes on the front and back of the lateral panels appear as superimposed. Bosch made changes and small corrections during the painting phase. In the central scene of The Garden of Earthly Delights he eliminated some elements such as the piece of fruit possibly a pomegranate at the lower left edge and also modified some aspects of the landscape, such as the diagonal plane that emerged from the right.

Particularly striking is the precision of the outlines and the way the artist focused on some figures, including the woman with two cherries on her head, whose face he insistently reworked. In the scene of Hell Bosch eliminated various large objects and fantastical beasts such as the amphibian with a large sphere emerging from its body with a man inside it.

The under-drawing was executed free-hand in brush over the white ground. The under-drawing of the earthly Paradise underwent significant changes: Adam, Eve and God the Father were first located in the middle of the scene but were then moved further down. The intricacy of its symbolism, particularly that of the central panel, has led to a wide range of scholarly interpretations over the centuries. Twentieth-century art historians are divided as to whether the triptych's central panel is a moral warning or a panorama of paradise lost.

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He signed a number of his paintings as Jheronimus Bosch. Little is known of Bosch's life or training. He left behind no letters or diaries, and what has been identified has been taken from brief references to him in the municipal records of 's-Hertogenbosch , and in the account books of the local order of the Illustrious Brotherhood of Our Blessed Lady. Nothing is known of his personality or his thoughts on the meaning of his art.

Bosch's date of birth has not been determined with certainty. It is estimated at c. The drawing shows the artist at an advanced age, probably in his late sixties. Bosch was born and lived all his life in and near 's-Hertogenbosch , a city in the Duchy of Brabant. His grandfather, Jan van Aken died , was a painter and is first mentioned in the records in It is known that Jan had five sons, four of whom were also painters. Bosch's father, Anthonius van Aken died c.

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In , 4, houses in the town were destroyed by a catastrophic fire, which the then approximately year-old Bosch presumably witnessed. He became a popular painter in his lifetime and often received commissions from abroad. In he joined the highly respected Brotherhood of Our Lady, an arch-conservative religious group of some 40 influential citizens of 's-Hertogenbosch , and 7, 'outer-members' from around Europe.

Sometime between and , Bosch married Aleyt Goyaerts van den Meerveen, who was a few years his senior. The couple moved to the nearby town of Oirschot, where his wife had inherited a house and land from her wealthy family. A funeral mass served in his memory was held in the church of Saint John on 9 August of that year.

Bosch produced at least sixteen triptychs, of which eight are fully intact, and another five in fragments. According to Stefan Fischer, thirteen of Bosch's surviving paintings were completed in the late period, with seven attributed to his middle period. Indeed, he taught pupils in the workshop, who were influenced by him. The recent dendrochronological investigation of the oak panels by the scientists at the Bosch Research and Conservation Project [16] led to a more precise dating of the majority of Bosch's paintings.

His most famous triptych is The Garden of Earthly Delights c. It is attributed by Fischer as a transition painting rendered by Bosch from between his middle period and his late period. In the left hand panel God presents Eve to Adam ; innovatively God is given a youthful appearance. The figures are set in a landscape populated by exotic animals and unusual semi-organic hut-shaped forms. The central panel is a broad panorama teeming with socially engaged nude figures seemingly engaged in innocent, self-absorbed joy, as well as fantastical animals, oversized fruit and hybrid stone formations.

The right panel presents a hellscape; a world in which humankind has succumbed to the temptations of evil and is reaping eternal damnation. Set at night, the panel features cold colours, tortured figures and frozen waterways. The nakedness of the human figures has lost any eroticism suggested in the central panel, [19] as large explosions in the background throw light through the city gate and spill onto the water in the panel's midground. Bosch sometimes painted in a comparatively sketchy manner, contrasting with the traditional Flemish style of painting in which the smooth surface—achieved by the application of multiple transparent glazes—conceals the brushwork.

Bosch's paintings with their rough surfaces, so called impasto painting, differed from the tradition of the great Netherlandish painters of the end of the 15th, and beginning of the 16th centuries, who wished to hide the work done and so suggest their paintings as more nearly divine creations. Bosch did not date his paintings, but—unusual for the time—he seems to have signed several of them, although some signatures purporting to be his are certainly not.

About 25 paintings remain today that can be attributed to him.

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