Bosch. Complete Paintings

Even his contemporaries found the work of the Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch 1450-1516 difficult to solve and it still presents riddles to art historians today. In his pictorial world teeming with surrealistic nightmares, the medieval imagination catches fire in a moment of final brilliance before succumbing to humanism and modern rationalism. Although planted in the Old Dutch tradition, Bosch developed a highly subjective, richly suggestive formal language. With a mixture of religious humility and satanic wit, he illustrated both the joys of heaven and the cruelly imaginative tortures of hell.