He was born in 1450 in the town of Hertogenbosch. In the Province of Brabant, now a municipality of the Southern Netherlands.
His father, older brothers, uncles and grandfather were also artists, who all together left a wealth of work for Bosch. Passing down their knowledge to make him a master of the family art tradition.
when he was 13 years old he witnessed a devastating fire destroy much of his town.
Which likely Influenced his later hellish landscapes.

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He is perhaps best known for his Triptych masterpiece: 'The Garden Of Earthly Delights'.

What is a Triptych?
Triptychs were typically large religious paintings you could open up on Sundays to reveal a beautiful inner painting.

This is how the outside of the doors looked like.
and below is the painting when it is opened up.

revealing a bright mysterious scene depicting symbolic scenes of the garden of Eden, degeneration and corruption of man until paradise becomes hell.

throughout the whole painting are dozens upon dozens of little scenes which all tell their own part of the story, which have taught me about how these people saw the world. where spirituality was more important than the material, where art was visual poetry. It's beyond beautiful in it's depictions and it's thinking.

Just to give an idea of the size of these things.

Evil lurks even in Eden...

'The Right Eye of god with scenes from the passion'
look at it clockwise...
significance of the pelican...

st John the baptis (in meditation)

sheltered lamb...
The three birds...
The Face in the plant...

the best contemporaries at the time

humans reduced to meat...
the devil is made small, sneaky and pathetic...
arm symbolism....
Black, In shadow, Reptile, Nocturnal...
Materialism, Glasses...

Now for spooky images

Dramatic Music

influence on my work

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