Hieronymus Bosch - part 3

 Hieronymus Bosch was born in the town of 's Hertogenbosch near Antwerp, from which he took his name. He was the son of a painter. He is famous for the fantastic and disturbing detail of his panel pictures. In his mature works Bosch developed an original and often macabre language of visual symbolism, sometimes a literal translation of verbal metaphors found in the Bible.

Bosch appears to have spent the majority of his life in 's-Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc), although his family probably came from Aachen in Germany. His chronology is uncertain, but the Gallery's ‘Christ Mocked’ is probably an early work, one of many representing episodes of the Passion of Christ. Bosch's most famous work is perhaps 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' at the Prado, Madrid. In the 17th century Van Mander wrote

'Who will be able to tell of all the weird and strange ideas which were in the mind of Hieronymus Bosch, and his expressions of them by his brush? He painted gruesome Pictures.’ Bosch's work particularly influenced Bruegel in the 16th century. His paintings were collected by Philip II of Spain, and in the 20th century were cited by the Surrealists as precursors of their own visions.

This is part 3 of a 3-part series on the works of Hieronymus Bosch:

1505-15 The Last Judgment triptych:

1505-15 The Last Judgment
triptych oil on panels
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid

1505-15 The Last Judgment 
right hand panel

1505-15 The Last Judgment
left hand panel

1505-15 The Last Judgement
centre panel detail

1505-15 The Last Judgement
centre panel detail

1505-15 The Last Judgement
centre panel detail

1505-15 The Last Judgement
centre panel detail

1505-15 The Last Judgement
centre panel detail

1505-15 The Last Judgement
centre panel detail

1505-15 The Last Judgement
centre panel detail

1505-15 The Last Judgement
left panel detail

1505-15 The Last Judgement
left panel detail

1505-15 The Last Judgement
left panel detail

1505-15 The Last Judgement
right panel detail

1505-15 The Last Judgement
right panel detail

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1505-15 Visions of the Hereafter
88.8 x 39.6 cm (each)
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid

1505-15 Visions of the Hereafter
panel 1 detail

1505-15 Visions of the Hereafter
panel 2 detail

1505-15 Visions of the Hereafter
panel 3 detail

1505-15 Visions of the Hereafter
panel 4 detail

c1505-16 The Owl's Nest
pen and brown ink on paper 14.1 x 19.7 cm
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands

c1505 Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos /
The Passion of Christ
oil on panel 63 x 43.3 cm
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid

c1510 Christ Mocked (The Crowning with Thorns)
oil on oak panel 73.8 x 59 cm
The National Gallery, London

c1520 The Temptation of Saint Anthony
oil on oak panel 38.6 x 25.1 cm
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

1550-60 The Last Judgement
triptych engraving on laid paper, probably coloured around 1570-1590
38.8 x 124.5 cm

1550-60 The Last Judgement
detail

1550-60 The Last Judgement
detail

1550-60 The Last Judgement
detail

1561 Saint Martin with his horse in a ship
engraving 34.2 x 42.4 cm

c1575 Christ In Limbo
(follower of Bosch)
oil on wood panel 58.1 x 72.1 cm
Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

c1575 Christ In Limbo
detail

c1575 Christ In Limbo
detail

c1575 Christ In Limbo
detail

n.d. Christ's Descent into Hell
oil on wood panel 53.3 x 116.8 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

n.d. Christ's Descent into Hell
detail

n.d. Christ's Descent into Hell
detail

n.d. Christ's Descent into Hell
detail

n.d. Seven sketches of monstrous animals
© Louvre Museum, dist. RMN-Grand Palais 

n.d. The Entombment
brush over a preliminary sketch in black chalk 25 x 35 cm

n.d. The Temptation of St. Anthony
etched by Jan and Lucas van Doetecum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

n.d. Witches and Monsters
© Louvre Museum, dist. RMN-Grand Palais