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1400s, 15th Century, art, Artists, Dutch, Netherlands, Painters, Paintings, Religious, Renaissance
And so a month on I have started my new job (at the National Centre for Circus Arts no less!) and finished Oklahoma! and now find myself with no excuse to put off posting 😛
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Name: Hieronymus Bosch
Work: Artist
Born: 1450
Died: 1516
Hometown: Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
Period: North European Renaissance
What I have learnt about his work:
Bosch painted serveral triptych panels, which portrayed his strong religious and moral ideas using extreme and disturbing imagery and details. The images were often gruesome and macabre and would occasionally be literal depictions of metaphors from the Bible. His most famous work is the Garden of Earthly Delights, showing creation, life on earth and hell across three panels, intricately and unpleasantly detailing all manner of human sin. In contrast with the smooth, glazed surfaces of most Dutch painting of the time, Bosch left his brushwork visible with an unfinished, imperfect appearance, which I feel supports Bosch’s recurring theme of the imperfection of humanity.
Garden of Earthly Delights
Oil on oak
~1490-1510
Museo Del Prado, Madrid
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