[The Flemish Painters]  [High Renaissance]
Hieronymus Bosch

See also: [Pieter Brugel, the Elder]

  Hierronymus Bosch
  aka Jeoen Anthoiszoon.
    (b. ca.1450, Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc, Neth); 
     d. 1516, Hertogenbosh).

Little is known of him other than his 
association with a monkish order known
as The Brotherhood of our Lady. 

Best known for his tryptic of three 
paintings:  Garden of Earthly Delights.
Which also contains a dipiction of hell
and what to expect if the would be devout
were to turn away from the "true church".

His main ability to was to transform the vague
and highly symbolic ideas (both religious and
material) into what we would have to call 
"surrealist", "symbolist", and of course
breath-takingly realistic and creative.

    




Chronology