Hieronymus Bosch - Selected Works

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Hieronymus Bosch, born Jeroen Anthonissen van Aken c. 1450; Died August 9, 1516, was an Early Netherlandish painter of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Many of his works depict sin and human moral failings.

Bosch used images of demons, half-human animals and machines to evoke fear and confusion to portray the evil of man. His works contain complex, highly original, imaginative, and dense use of symbolic figures and iconography, some of which was obscure even in his own time.

Little is known of Bosch's life or training. He left behind no letters or diaries, and what has been identified has been taken from brief references to him in the municipal records of his birthplace in 's-Hertogenbosch, and in the account books of the local order of the Brotherhood of Our Lady.

Nothing is known of his personality or his thoughts on the meaning of his art. Bosch's date of birth has not been determined with certainty. It is estimated at c. 1450 on the basis of a hand drawn portrait (which may be a self-portrait) made shortly before his death in 1516. The drawing shows the artist at an advanced age, probably in his late sixties.

Bosch produced several triptychs. Among his most famous is The Garden of Earthly Delights. This painting depicts paradise with Adam and Eve and many wondrous animals on the left panel, the earthly delights with numerous nude figures and tremendous fruit and birds on the middle panel, and hell with depictions of fantastic punishments of the various types of sinners on the right panel. When the exterior panels are closed the viewer can see, painted in grisaille, God creating the Earth. These paintings have a rough surface from the application of paint; this contrasts with the traditional Flemish style of paintings, where the smooth surface attempts to hide the fact that the painting is man-made.

Bosch never dated his paintings and may have signed only some of them (other signatures are certainly not his). Fewer than 25 paintings remain today that can be attributed to him. Philip II of Spain acquired many of Bosch's paintings after the painter's death; as a result, the Prado Museum in Madrid now owns several of his works, including The Garden of Earthly Delights.

Music by- Pavle Aksentijevic

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[optimusbgmarko]

Pavle Aksentijevic Serbian orthodox chant

[ki4clz]

@optimusbgmarko ... yup that's it...!

[trisajko]

...and thus I can find some similarities in afterlife interpretations...

[ki4clz]

I really wish I could have spent more time making this slide show... There is so much detail missed, but it does make a good teaser for a majority of his works...

and you're right about the music (good ear) it is Serbian Orthodox Liturgical Music (St. John Chrysostom's Liturgy)

The last Choral is from Divna Ljubojevic titled "Defte Lai"

[Dzimini]

vise od umetnosti!

[trisajko]

...great work. Music is really appropriate, and here is reason why: it has a bit more eastern influence than Bosch's creation's environment. It's Slavic, but I can find some eastern theology symbols in his works. Most of them are in representations of sins and hell, while fashion in virtues scenes is unambiguously part of western culture. 3x3

[meesterschilders]

i like your documentary styl and the information added (great choise of music)