Bosch, who lived around the turn of the sixteenth century in the Brabant town of ’s-Hertogenbosch, left behind a universe that seems less painted than excavated from the subconscious.
His canvases are populated by hybrid monsters, grotesque landscapes, absurd punishments and bewildering moral spectacles. They are populated, too, by ordinary human weaknesses: vanity, lust, greed, gluttony, cruelty, stupidity and the remarkably persistent belief that someone else will eventually pay for our sins.
Yet the painter himself remains an elusive figure. We know something about his life, his marriage, his professional standing and his religious surroundings. We know considerably less about the private machinery of his imagination. The popular image of Bosch as an isolated visionary, a starving mystic who deliberately weakened his body to unlock supernatural perceptions, belongs partly to the seductive mythology surrounding his art. The historical evidence is less accommodating. There is no reliable proof that he fasted himself into hallucinations or deliberately cultivated starvation as a gateway to hell.
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The World of Hieronymus Bosch
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