Bosch

Hieronymus Bosch, a Surrealist centuries before Surrealism.

With its giant strawberries and nudity, Hieronymus Bosch’s painting has been seen as a celebration and warning about sin – but it’s really about a Renaissance-era curiosity that helped better explain the world

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Hieronymus Bosch (Jeroen van Aken, ca 1450-1516), The Last Judgment, triptych (1486), oil on wood, central panel, detail. Groeninge Museum, Bruges

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Booty songs sounded a little different in the 1500s.

This is one of two fragments of a lost triptych that’s attributed to Bosch because, well, come on! Nobody else in the entire history of art painted messed up visions of hell like this! My fav…

Nobody really understands Hieronymus Bosch. “I cannot help feeling,” art historian and early-Netherlandish specialist Erwin Panofsky concluded, “that the real secret of his magnificent nightmares and daydreams has still to be disclosed.” Last week I visited the painter’s hometown of ‘s-Hertogenbosch to see the extraordinary retrospective recently opened at the Noordbrabants Museum to mark the 500th anniversary of his death.