- "THE SHIP OF FOOLS" by Hieronymus Bosch
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- HIERONYMUS BOSCH BIOGRAPHY
1450-1516
Hieronymus Bosch is the genius Netherlander Painter, born in 1450 in s'Hertogenbosch. Bosch's paintings combined irreverent and grotesque images, fantasy, freaks, devils, and bizarre symbolism to depict corruption, indulgence, religious hypocrisy and human greed.
Among Bosch's most famous paintings are "The Ship of Fools" c. 1500 (above), which is based on German writer Sebastian Brant's work "Das Narrenschiff"- an allegorical poem about human folly of lazy, greedy, useless people on a ship going no where and led by no one. Bosch based his masterpiece on this poem and painted a ship with a drunk nun and monk singing together, a court jester, naked people, and other symbols of stupidity, corruption, indulgence and religious hypocrisy. Bosch also painted the famous "The Garden Of Earthly Delights" and "Christ Carrying The Cross".
1 comment:
I love Bosch!
For me he was a medieval Dali.
400 years + ahead of his time.
A great master.
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