THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Daniel McDermon
 |
| Detail from center panel of "The Last Judgement" below (c. 1500) by Hieronymus Bosch |
Most of
Hieronymus Bosch's surviving paintings are
now on display in his hometown in the Netherlands. Especially in his larger works, Bosch depicts human depravity and divine punishment with a perverse, if not gleeful, imagination. Bosch frequently worked on biblical themes, as in this folding
diablerie, depicting a handful of good people at left, soon to get their reward: salvation. But he held a dim view of the majority: Witness the other panels, full of fools and sinners. [
link]
 |
| The Last Judgment
Circa 1495-1505 (Groeningemuseum, Brugge, Belgium) |
Comments