Albert Bierstadt
1450 - 1516
Bosch lived and worked in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, a fairly quiet Dutch city. His training as a painter Bosch, most probably, received in the family. His father and grandfather were both painters.
In 1486-87, Bosch’s name appears for the first time in the membership lists of the Brotherhood of Our Lady, one of the many groups devoted to the worship of the Virgin, which flourished in the late Middle Ages.
Hieronymus Bosch is known for his enigmatic panels illustrating complex religious subjects with fantastic, often demonic imagery. Bosch’s pictures have always fascinated viewers, but in earlier centuries it was widely assumed that his diabolic scenes were intended merely to amuse or titillate, most people regarded him as “the inventor of monsters and chimeras’. No matter what explanation and comprehension of his art might be, Bosch remains the most extravagant painter of his time.
