Hieronymus Bosch (2p minimum) introduction Exploring the concept of the Christian Worldview- Hieronymus Bosch and his rather infamous triptych ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights. We misunderstand the artist if we fail to look past his grotesque beasts and monsters
biography real name was Jeroen van Aken and in Spain, he is known as “El Bosco”. Bosch was a Dutch painter of the 15th-16th century
Little is known about the life of this Early Netherlandish Renaissance artist, but we do know that both his father and grandfather were also painters. Bosch's father Antonius van Aken was also an adviser to the Illustrious Brotherhood of Our Blessed Lady, a group of Christians dedicated to glorifying the Virgin Mary. Not long before he began work on The Garden of Earthly Delights, Bosch followed his father's lead and joined the Brotherhood as well.
Hieronymus Bosch was predominantly a religious painter who expressed a world view as complex as that of Dante. His work stands at the juncture of a declining medieval age and the rising influence of …show more content…
Bosch forces us to choose: Are you a man or a beast?
- A Time of Contrasts -
Bosch lived in an historical period full of paradoxes, contrasts, and contradictions (much like our own!). It was the world of the Golden Renaissance. His life was almost exactly contemporaneous with that of the greatest genius of the 15th-Century Golden Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). understood that the Renaissance would be crushed, unless man were uplifted from his bestial condition, to become man in the image of God.
Bosch has been called a pessimist, an alchemist, a blasphemer, a man who could not see the possibility of redemption—even, a pornographer. Is he any of these? Or is he waging a ruthless polemic against the same kind of evil we face
biography real name was Jeroen van Aken and in Spain, he is known as “El Bosco”. Bosch was a Dutch painter of the 15th-16th century
Little is known about the life of this Early Netherlandish Renaissance artist, but we do know that both his father and grandfather were also painters. Bosch's father Antonius van Aken was also an adviser to the Illustrious Brotherhood of Our Blessed Lady, a group of Christians dedicated to glorifying the Virgin Mary. Not long before he began work on The Garden of Earthly Delights, Bosch followed his father's lead and joined the Brotherhood as well.
Hieronymus Bosch was predominantly a religious painter who expressed a world view as complex as that of Dante. His work stands at the juncture of a declining medieval age and the rising influence of …show more content…
Bosch forces us to choose: Are you a man or a beast?
- A Time of Contrasts -
Bosch lived in an historical period full of paradoxes, contrasts, and contradictions (much like our own!). It was the world of the Golden Renaissance. His life was almost exactly contemporaneous with that of the greatest genius of the 15th-Century Golden Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). understood that the Renaissance would be crushed, unless man were uplifted from his bestial condition, to become man in the image of God.
Bosch has been called a pessimist, an alchemist, a blasphemer, a man who could not see the possibility of redemption—even, a pornographer. Is he any of these? Or is he waging a ruthless polemic against the same kind of evil we face