Hieronymus Bosch:
The "Devil Painter"

Biography

• Born around 1450
• Artistic family
• Brotherhood of Our Lady
• Married Aleyt van den Meerveen
• Died August 9, 1516
• “Bosch used images of demons, half-human animals and machines to evoke fear and confusion to portray the evil of man.”

Art

• Less than 25 paintings- 7 signed
• debated meanings
• reflects religious beliefs- morals
• gruesome
• “Visual translations of verbal metaphors”

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Garden of Earthly DElights

• One of his most famous paintings
• Painted from 1510-1515
• Adam and Eve, Earthly Delights, and Hell

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the Last Judgement

• 1504
• Judgment day- the fall of humanity

Legacy

• influential style
• still debatable
• devil painters
• Prado Museum in Madrid

Humanism

• opposite views
• religious work
• Ex. The Haywain

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Haywain vs. humanism

• Haywain = sin and punishment
• Humanism = individual right and control of destiny

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